Motility

Synonyms for "motility" (14 found)

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Closest matches (3)

Noun(3 words)
movementcell movementcellular locomotion

Strong matches (4)

Noun(4 words)
gi motilitygut motilitykinesislocomotion

Related words (7)

Noun(6 words)
microbial motilitymicroorganism movementmobilitymotionmovabilitymove
motive power

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

9 entries
biological phenomenonbiological propertycell biologycell physiologychangedigestive physiologymicrobiology conceptmobilityphysiological process

More specific

10 entries
amoeboid movementcellular motilitycilia-driven movementflagellar motilitygliding motilitylamellipodial movementorganismal locomotionperistalsissegmentationtwitching motility

Collocations

6 entries
bacterial motilitycell motilityflagellar motilitygastrointestinal motilitymotility assaytwitching motility

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

1 entries

Antonyms

1 entries

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Sperm motility is one of the things tested in a semen analysis.

Source: tatoeba (8045383)

The new rapid, automated test can show within a matter of seconds whether the man's sperm count is too low to conceive or if there are problems with motility of the sperm so the reproductive cells have trouble fertilizing a female egg.

Source: tatoeba (12252580)

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