0 past simple and past participle of ejaculate
1 (of a man or male animal), to produce a sudden flow of semen from the penis
2 to shout or say something suddenly:
[ + speech ] "You've got my umbrella!" he ejaculated.
Ejaculated spermatozoa are mixed with the seminal plasma, a complex mixture of epididymal and accessory gland secretions.
Ejaculated spermatozoa must go through a process of capacitation before they are able to fertilize an oocyte.
Ejaculated spermatozoa do not have the immediate capacity for fertilisation.
Simply, very few of the ejaculated spermatozoa (about one out of every million spermatozoa in humans) will be successful in entering the fallopian tubes.
On the other hand, the actual phase of nuclear maturation is much more difficult to assess in the case of ejaculated cells in which only smear preparations are available.
