What is "oligospermia"?

What is "oligospermia"?

Philip Werthman, FACS (Director, Center for Male Reproductive Medicine) gives expert video advice on: What causes infertility in men? and more...

Oligospermia is a term we use to describe low sperm count. So the World Health Organization came up with parameters for semen analysis that they call normal and it's a big range. For men, the range is anywhere from 2 million sperm per cc, up to over 12 million sperm per cc. So you can see that's a very large range. Any time the sperm count is consistently under 2 million we call that Oligospermia.