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
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
There is complete disagreement between the results of Ancel and Bouin on the one hand, and those of Shattock and Seligmann on the other, with regard to the effects of ligature of the vasa deferentia.
From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.
These glands are the following: the prostate gland, the glands of the vesiculæ seminales and the vasa deferentia, the glands of Cowper, and the glands of Littré.
From The Sexual Life of the Child by Paul, Eden
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
