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Using the method, the team focused on sperms with defective capacitation, a process through which sperms become capable of fertilizing an egg.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2024

There’s just something about a failed car that ends up saving the future, where all the rules are in a state of flux capacitation.

From The Verge • Oct. 21, 2015

Sperm must undergo the process of capacitation in order to have the “capacity” to fertilize an oocyte.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

During the journey, fluids in the female reproductive tract prepare the sperm for fertilization through a process called capacitation, or priming.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The mysterious and supernatural birth, therefore, was essential, as a capacitation for the work to be performed; and, on the other hand, the mysterious death and consequences were essential, as the very work itself.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas