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English
Etymology
From spermato- + -rrhoea.
Pronunciation
Noun
spermatorrhoea (countable and uncountable, plural spermatorrhoeas)
- (medicine) Abnormal emission of the semen without copulation.
1920, B. G. Jefferis, J. L. Nichols, “Sexual Proprieties and Improprieties”, in Searchlights on Health:The indulgence of illicit pleasures, says Dr. S. Pancoast, sooner or later is sure to entail the most loathsome diseases on their votaries. Among these diseases are Gonorrhoea, Syphilis, Spermatorrhoea (waste of semen by daily and nightly involuntary emissions), […]
2001, David M Friedman, A Mind of its Own, Robert Hale, published 2009, page 70:Sure, masturbation is unhealthy, Lallemand wrote. But so is the unintentional loss of semen, which he called spermatorrhea.