vas deferens
noun
the duct that transports the sperm from the epididymis to the penis.
vasa deferentia
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pluralof vas deferens.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
Each opens in a vas deferens which bears three diverticula or vesiculae seminales, and three pairs of cement glands also are found which pour their secretions through a duct into the vasa deferentia.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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 John Harvey Kellogg
Extraordinary increase in length during the breeding season causes the vasa deferentia in some of the African weaver-birds to protrude, or to bulge out the cloacal walls beyond the vent.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
The intestine has neither duodeno jejunal flexure nor a caecum; the prostate gland is rudimentary; but glands occur in the vasa deferentia; and the penial bone is cylindrical.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
