How to Use motility in a Sentence

motility

noun

• They are also thought to improve gut motility and reduce the risk of leaky gut syndrome.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
• In this case, certain receptors that help gut motility are blocked.
  — Jessica Migala, Women's Health, 15 Apr. 2023
• First, exercise increases the motility of your colon, which reduces the amount of time your stool sits in your belly making gas.
  — Sarah Bradley, Women's Health, 20 Mar. 2023
• Almstrup also points out there can be more problems with sperm than just low numbers or poor motility.
  — Andrea Marks, Scientific American, 22 Mar. 2017
• At the end, their sperm count measured 16 percent higher than men who didn’t eat nuts, and their swimmers had greater vitality and motility. 5.
  — Jill Waldbieser, Men's Health, 5 May 2023
• Their research saw that the Black men in their study had even lower sperm concentrations and motility compared with other men.
  — Melanie Curry, Men's Health, 15 Aug. 2022
• During flight, in addition to low residue foods, some use was also made of drugs to reduce intestinal motility.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2021
• This can cause the intestines to drop or the belly to protrude, among other things and these changes might lead to motility problems or bacterial overgrowth in the gut, Dr. Spiegel theorized.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 27 Feb. 2023
• What will make a smart G-tube ‘smart’ is its ability to measure stomach motility (or movement) for clinicians.
  — Christopher Reardon, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2021
• In humans, a small study found that maca root supplements may improve sperm count and motility in men with fertility issues.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2023
• The drug candidate in the study works by blocking a protein called soluble adenylyl cyclase (SAC), which helps control sperm motility and movement.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 23 Feb. 2023
• That said, researchers of the new study did not find any association between cell phone use on motility and morphology.
  — Kaitlin Vogel, Health, 17 Nov. 2023
• The first-of-its-kind therapy helps to stimulate colonic motility from inside the body, and is eventually expelled through a bowel movement.
  — Korin Miller, Health, 10 Feb. 2023
• Metabolism slows down over time, and so does bowel motility and the mobility of intestines.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 26 Dec. 2023
• This supplement can help protect sperm from oxidative damage and may help sperm motility.
  — Casey Seiden, Parents, 19 May 2024
• Ginger speeds up your gastric motility, or how quickly food moves through your gastrointestinal tract.
  — Ashia Aubourg, SELF, 9 Oct. 2023
• Another way that blood flow influences gut function is through changes in motility, the contractions and relaxations that control the movement of foodstuffs through your GI tract.
  — Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 15 June 2020
• In a review of four trials, it was found that men who took ashwagandha had an increase in sperm concentration and motility, as well as a small increase in testosterone levels.
  — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 28 July 2022
• In animal studies, maca root has been shown to increase sperm production and motility, as well as improve fertility in male rats.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2023
• In fact, the thing that Alert is best at is grinding the momentum of a missing persons investigation to a halt for absurd conversations about sperm motility and whether or not men can fake orgasms.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2023
• Additionally, testosterone helps to increase the motility of sperm cells.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
• But freezing sperm, a necessity when recovering semen from wild males in the field, reduces its motility.
  — Amy Mathews Amos, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2023
• Her work, and that of many others, has demonstrated that men with higher concentrations of phthalates in their urine (a measure of exposure) have lower sperm counts and poorer sperm motility than men with less of these substances.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
• Of the many significant findings were that sperm count and motility (how efficiently sperm move or swim) of the patients taking NAC increased significantly.
  — Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2023
• While the Proov Sperm Test is limited to assessing motile sperm concentration and not any other signs of sperm count or quality, motility is still a strong indicator of fertility, so this will get you off to a good start.
  — Sarah Bradley, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2023
• Good hydration also increases the mucus secretions in your bowels and your overall bowel motility, so drink up!
  — Sarah Bradley, Women's Health, 20 Mar. 2023
• Progesterone impacts the motility of the intestinal tract, leading to constipation and bloating.
  — Karla Walsh, Woman's Day, 15 July 2022
• One start-up based in Ireland plans to release a wearable sensor that tracks the frequency and severity of menopause symptoms, while another from South Korea claims to have developed a gadget that will increase a wearer’s sperm motility.
  — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
• The boxers group had 17 percent higher sperm counts, 25 percent higher sperm concentrations and higher sperm motility than their non-boxer counterparts.
  — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2018
• Signals are sent to the brain about the level of satiety and nutrients, the brain increases or decreases digestive juices and regulates the speed of gut motility depending on information received from the nervous system.
  — Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024