Sentences with word «testicles»

It's not strictly a penis issue, But since his testicles hang right below, they have the potential to affect your partner's entire package.

The four - stroke breath balances the pituitary gland, known in yogic science as the master gland because the entire endocrine system (from the hypothalamus to the thyroid to the ovaries and testicles) all change based on the pituitary secretion.

«We disagree with sports that promote violence,» Dr. LeBlanc says, noting that if boxing rules were changed to prohibit punching above the neck — as they were to protect the testicles, in 1938 — pediatric organizations might rethink their opposition to the sport.

To perform the retrieval, a surgeon or urologist may conduct an epididymal aspiration (extraction of sperm with a needle through the skin), a testicular biopsy, or a complete removal of the testicles.

Several more days later, he noticed his testicles had shrunk, and then in a few days more he noticed they had shrunk to half their original size.

His testicles came back to their original size.

The spermatozoa of animals are produced through spermatogenesis inside the male gonads (testicles) via meiotic division.

All on its own, the presence of SRY can make a female turn out to be essentially male — with bigger muscles, a penis, and testicles (although unable to make sperm).

«Secondly, whilst the damage that the Zika virus appears to be causing to the mouse testicles in these experiments, we don't yet know if it has a permanent impact on fertility which is the critical factor.

And boys with undescended testicles have an increased risk of developing certain germ cell tumors.

For this reason, chimpanzees have evolved huge testicles in order to produce massive amounts of sperm, multiple times a day.

Stem cells in the testicles divide throughout a man's life in a process that leads to the production of sperm.

However our testicles are rather small.

The samples collected throughout the study, along with testicles collected from dogs that had undergone castration, contained environmental contaminants in high enough concentrations to affect sperm motility.

The research suggested that use of painkillers such as paracetamol, aspirin and ibuprofen during pregnancy may be linked to male reproductive disorders such as undescended testicles.

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have taken tissue from human testicles that produce sperm, grafted them onto diabetic mice and showed that blood sugar levels can be controlled for up to a week because they produce insulin.

Researchers found that the Ebola virus can remain in men's testicles longer than they originally thought.

If after the operation, the patient has no testicles, he will be infertile.

The results from the study showed that men who reported earlier or later onset of puberty than their peers had a poorer semen quality and smaller testicles at age 19 years of age.

The researchers have found reduced sperm quality as well as changes in the prostate, testicles, ovaries and breast development.

Although we stray from the path more often than we care to admit, human society is all about the age - old business of boy meets girl and sets up home under a roof, so much so that it explains such things as the size of our testicles, the manifest oddities of the female reproductive system, and why we prefer to have sex in private.

Meanwhile, the occurance of undescended testicles and abnormally developed male urethras are also thought to be increasing.

In addition to reduced sperm quality, other observed effects in male rats included changes to the prostate as well as the testicles» ability to produce hormones.

Even immature sperm that have been removed artificially from the testicles can achieve fertilisation if introduced into the egg in this way, allowing men with low sperm counts or with immobile or misshapen sperm to become fathers.

Despite this progress, however, women who lack ovaries altogether and men whose testicles have failed to develop or have been removed must still use donor gametes if they wish to have a child, which means that the child will not carry any of their genes.

The examples are too numerous to list, but let's just consider one: human males have their testicles on the outside.

Now, new findings provide evidence that the tusk may indicate which males have the biggest testicles — and thus are the most fertile mates.

As with humans, the disease can seriously damage the reproductive system, causing infertility, abortion, inflammation of the testicles, and sterility, as well as high fevers and problems in the respiratory and digestive systems.

Males start building up to this in January: their testicles swell and their hormones change.

Like reptiles, it lays eggs, has no nipples and houses its testicles inside its body near its kidneys.

Two American medics, William Hazzard and Deborah Applebaum - Bowden of Wake Forest University in North Carolina, believe the killing agent is not so much the testicles as the male sex hormones they produce.

Pubescent males and females were injected with atrazine and myriad other chemicals, then had ovaries removed and studied, tiny testicles weighed, and kidney and thyroid glands checked for toxic effects.

Little atten - tion has been paid to the potential benefits of having no testicles at all.

As if dodgy sex chromosomes are not enough, there are the testicles.

Fat mass in the liver and the duct surrounding the testicles (epididymis) was also decreased in the deficient group.

In Japan, raccoon dogs are known as tanuki, and you often see statues of them outside restaurants — with very large testicles.

But in the meantime, he advises against taking them in the second trimester, as this is when the testicles form.

Yet a second arm of his study, investigating 1463 women in Finland, found no link between painkillers and undescended testicles.

The researchers identified which women took paracetamol, aspirin or ibuprofen for pain relief during pregnancy, and investigated whether this raised the likelihood that their sons would have undescended testicles at birth, a condition called cryptorchidism.

Women who take mild painkillers such as aspirin and paracetamol during pregnancy are slightly more likely to have boys with undescended testicles, a study from Denmark has reported.

In species with the largest vocal organs, males have the smallest testicles, suggesting an evolutionary trade - off between winning mates and making sperm

About a decade ago, at the request of Psychology Today magazine, I had an amusing debate with Richard Dawkins about testicles.

The site of human testicles seems a bizarre anomaly from an evolutionary point of view, like positioning the driver of an armored vehicle in a sack strapped to the bumper.

The gonads (testicles and ovaries) divide the chromosomes to create haploid cells, namely spermatozoa and eggs.

Three weeks after male mice were infected with Zika, their testicles had shrunk, levels of their sex hormones had dropped and their fertility was reduced.

After two males fight, one may reconcile with his opponent by presenting his rump and backing up against the other's testicles.

After two weeks, the testicles were significantly smaller, their internal structure was collapsing, and many cells were dead or dying.

«You might also ask, «Wouldn't a man notice if his testicles shrank?»

The main image of the cult is that of the God Mithras slaying a bull, and in the majority of these images there is also a scorpion stinging the animal's testicles.

Western countries are the biggest offenders: while many cultures are not fazed by a meal of brains or testicles, Butler estimates that Americans and Australians throw out up to half the cow mass they produce.