Crossword-Solution: GUBERNACULUM
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| in mammals, the cord supporting the testicles in the scrotal sac | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
WPALOL
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Sentences with GUBERNACULUM (4)
Their vessels, whatever their size, were guided by two large oars (_gubernaculum_) placed in the stern.
Sharpey (Quain's Anatomy, 5th edition) observes, that "the office of the gubernaculum is yet imperfectly understood." The opinions of these two distinguished physiologists will doubtless be regarded as an impartial estimate of the results of the researches prosecuted in reference to these questions by Haller, Camper, Hunter, Arnaud, Lobstein, Meckel, Paletta, Wrisberg, Vicq d'Azyr, Brugnone, Tumiati, Seiler, Girardi, Cooper, Bell, Weber, Carus, Cloquet, Curling, and others.
From my own observations, I am led to believe that no such muscular structure as a gubernaculum exists, and therefore that the descent of the testis is the effect of another cause.
Further, in many cases there exists, more or less fixed in the dorsal wall of the cloaca, a chitinous structure, the accessory piece or _gubernaculum_, the latter name implying its function of guiding the spicules during copulation (fig.