Crossword-Solution: EPIDIDYMIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Epididymis | n. | An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “EPIDIDYMIS”
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| a mass of sperm-carrying tubes at the back of the testis | 1 answer |
| MALE sperm duct system, part of the | 2 answers |
| SPERM duct system, part of the | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
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Discharge
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Sentences with EPIDIDYMIS (5)
Petersburg held a postmortem on a man in January, 1867, in whom the right half of the scrotum, the right testicle, epididymis, and the scrotal and inguinal parts of the right vas deferens were absent.
The testis, with the mesonephros, forming the epididymis, closely attached to it, projects into the coelom, and without losing its connexion with the peritoneum changes its position gradually during development, passing backwards and downwards until it comes to lie over the wall of the abdomen just in front of the pubic symphysis of the pelvic girdle.
The latter statement does not apply to the mesonephros or epididymis which has moved with the testis, but the latter cannot function without the former, and it may be supposed that the close attachment of the epididymis to the testis had come about in the early Mammalia before the change of position was evolved.
All these _lobules_ empty into small ducts which converging form the _Globus Major_, _Epididymis_ and _Globus Minor_, which finally end in the _Vas Deferens_, _Cord_, _Duct_, or _Tube_ that conveys the fluid to the Seminal Vesicles at the back of the bladder.
The essential sexual organ is the testis (T.), a compact mass of coiling tubuli, which opens by a number of ducts, the vasa efferentia, into a looser and softer epididymis (ep.), which sends the sexual product onward through a vas deferens (v.d.), to open at the base of the uterus masculinus.