post-ejaculatory

alternative postejaculatory

1. not comparablebiologyPassed after ejaculation; said especially of urine.

   The diagnosis of low-volume ejaculates without retrograde ejaculation is confirmed by the absence of significant numbers of sperm in the post-ejaculatory urine.

   1982, Current Therapy of Infertility, page 54

   Antonyms: pre-ejaculatory

2. not comparablebiologyOccurring after ejaculation.

   Capacitation is only one example of post-ejaculatory modifications to sperm (PEMS) that are widespread throughout the animal kingdom.

   2019, Scott Pitnick, Mariana F Wolfner, Steve Dorus, “Post-ejaculatory modifications to sperm (PEMS)”, in Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2025

   2 more examples

   Ejaculation followed by a prolonged post-ejaculatory refractory period (PERP) are considered principal features of the normal male sexual response.

   2012, Armin Becker, Mirja Schröder-Wilken, Matthias Trottmann, Christian Stief, Markus Kuczyk, Stefan Ückert, “INVESTIGATING THE MALE POST-EJACULATORY REFRACTORY PERIOD: IS THERE A ROLE OF HISTAMINE AND THE VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE?”, in Journal of Urology

   Conditions that sperm experience after release influence the outcome of sperm competition, hence paternity, but additionally, several studies have proposed that post-ejaculatory sperm experiences might influence the subsequent phenotype of offspring outside of paternity (Evans et al. 2017, Crean and Immler 2021, Purchase et al. 2021, Lymbery et al. 2025).

   2025, Ranjan Wagle, Craig F Purchase, “Does post-ejaculatory sperm experience prior to fertilization alter embryo performance beyond paternity in an external fertilizing fish?”, in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, →DOI

   Antonyms: pre-ejaculatory