Openings of ureters in wolffian duct in the female (fig. 3).
Ventrally it is closed in by the dorsal wall of the wolffian duct.
The wolffian body, which may be also called the mesonephros.
In the Amniota, at all events, they are processes of a special longitudinal ridge known as the wolffian ridge.
The fact that the Mllerian duct serves as oviduct, and the wolffian duct as vas deferens.
In the female the process is continued till the Mllerian duct opens, close to the wolffian duct, into the cloaca.
Its anterior section, in front of the wolffian body, undergoes a more or less complete atrophy.
The wolffian duct (sug) constituting the portion of the segmental duct left after the formation of the Mllerian duct.
The collecting tubes from both parts fall transversely into the wolffian duct.
The duct which receives the secretion of the anterior mesonephric tubules is the true mesonephric or wolffian duct.
Wolffian Wolff·i·an or wolff·i·an (wul'fē-ən)
adj.
Relating to or described by Kaspar Friedrich Wolff.
Wolff (vôlf), Kaspar Friedrich. 1733-1794.
German anatomist noted for his pioneering work in embryology. His chief work, Theoria Generationis (1759), refuted the theory of preformation, which held that the embryo is a fully formed miniature adult.
