vasa deferentia
- plural of vas deferens.
Example Sentences
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Normally sperm are conveyed toward the outside of the body through ducts, the vasa deferentia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other two bodies oblong like the preceding, but shorter and not half the diameter, he calls the vasa deferentia, d. d.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François
We possess, however, hardly any trustworthy information regarding the time at which the glands of the vasa deferentia begin to secrete.
From The Sexual Life of the Child by Paul, Eden
In some bristle-tails and may-flies, the two vasa deferentia open separately, but usually they lead into a sperm-reservoir, whence issues a median ejaculatory duet.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
This same membrane continues into and lines throughout the bladder, kidneys, and all the urinary organs, together with the vesiculæ seminales, the ejaculatory ducts, the vasa deferentia, and the testes.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey
