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insemination|ɪnsɛmɪˈneɪʃən|
[n. of action f. prec.]
a. The action of sowing in; the casting in or implanting of seed, or of germs; also fig.
1658in Phillips. 1682H. More Annot. Glanvill's Lux O. 68 Admitting that there is..an orderly insemination of lapsed Souls into humane Bodies. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Insemination, one of the four kinds of transplantation in use for the sympathetic cure of certain diseases. It is performed by mixing the medium impregnated with the mumia taken from the patient, with some fat earth, wherein has been sown the seed of a plant appropriate to that disease..It is supposed the diseases will decline, in proportion as the plant grows. 1893J. Pulsford Loyalty to Christ II. 94 Earth, Paradise, and Heaven are equally ground..susceptible of Divine insemination, and capable of yielding the fruits of God. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 719 In the last tube [infected with bacteria] the insemination is scantiest.
b. Immission of semen.
1860Tanner Pregnancy iv. 193 Haighton showed that conception does not generally take place in the rabbit till about 50 hours after insemination.
c. = artificial insemination.
1923Vet. Jrnl. LXXIX. 171 Apart from this kind of artificial insemination of females with ‘natural sperm’..it is also necessary to indicate the possibility of insemination with the so-called ‘artificial sperm’. 1944Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynaecol. LI. 527/1 One donor was usually used for 4 to 8 inseminations carried out within short intervals from each other. Ibid. 528/1 One single insemination with spermatozoa from a donor was followed by pregnancy. 1959Chambers's Encycl. I. 652/1 When the husband is sterile and the wife fertile, insemination with semen obtained from another donor has been used with success. 1974Times 21 Jan. 14/5 Increased beef inseminations may be connected with the subsidized switch out of dairying. |