vas deferens

From New Latin vās dēferēns, itself from vās (“vessel, duct”) +‎ dēferēns (“carrying off”, present active participle of dēferō (“to carry off”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˌvæz ˈdɛfəɹəns/

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vas deferens (plural vasa deferentia)

2. (anatomy) The duct in the testicle that carries semen from the epididymis to the ejaculatory duct.
   • 2008, Tibor Fischer, Good to Be God, Richmond, London: Alma Books, →ISBN, page 99:

     “Do you love Alexa?” “Woah, I’m not a one-woman man.” Of course not, his vasa deferentia must be on call round-the-clock.

• ductus deferens
• sperm duct
• spermiduct
• spermoduct
• spermaduct

• Wolffian duct - embryological precursor
• internal genitalia

• vasectomy

vās dēferēns n (genitive vāsis dēferentis); third declension

1. (New Latin, anatomy) vas deferens

   Synonym: ductus dēferēns

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem) with a third-declension participle.

• English: vas deferens