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The ebove-nentioned sperzatozoal abnormalities were
observed also in 6 patients with children under the age of 5.
That is to say, the Bikini explosion deprived a nweber of
young men of the normal fertility they had possessed before,
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The fact that all the men showed 2 decrease in number
and mobility of speriatozoa, an increase in ratio of the
deforrity of spermatozea, etc. indicates that they are suffering from the one and same external cause -- namely, radiation
injury.
The lack of mobility of spermatozoa in many instances,
a considerable decrease
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in number of spermatozoa, and the high
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percentase in & e defornity of spermatozoa, novably in the
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heads, give rise to grave apprehension about the future of
these patients.
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Of those vhose number of spermatozoa was comparatively
large at the firsv examination, 2 showed at the second examiCc
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nation a decrease in not only number but elso mobility of
spermatozoa, and at the third examination the symptoms were
found to have worsened rather than improved.
These facts
proves that in the testis there wes a cisturbence affecting
the formation of spermatozoa; that in the first examination
the already formed spermatozoa had been excreted; and that in
the second and subsequent exa inations there had taken place
a decrease in nunber of sper:atozoa and necrospermia.
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