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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The main duct through which semen is carried from the epididymis to the ejaculatory duct.

Wiktionary

  1. n. anatomy The duct in the testicle that carries semen from the epididymis to the ejaculatory duct.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Anat.) The excretory duct of a testicle; a spermatic duct.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a duct that carries spermatozoa from the epididymis to the ejaculatory duct

Etymologies

  1. From Latin vās ("vessel, duct") + dēferēns ("carrying off"), present active participle of dēferō ("carry off"). (Wiktionary)
  2. New Latin vās dēferēns : vās, duct + Latin dēferēns, present participle of dēferre, to carry away. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “After the opiate effect wore off, Hughes applied a small amount of “X” to the vas deferens tissues, and found that this natural compound was a much more powerful inhibitor of muscular contraction than normorphine had been.”

    Simon & Schuster: Alcohol and The Addictive Brain

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. ductus deferens

hypernyms (4)

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  1. duct
  1. epithelial duct
  1. canal
  1. channel

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. deferentitis
  2. epiphallus
  3. vasectomize
  4. vasectomy
  1. explains-why
  2. easier-and
  3. deferential
  4. epididymis
  1. vasa efferentia
  2. vasectomise
  3. vasosection
  4. vasotomy
  1. vasovasostomy
  2. vasovesiculitis
  3. ejaculatory duct
  4. spermatic cord
  1. vasoligation
  2. seminal vesicle
  3. cirrus
  4. spermatic
  1. atripaic

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  • bilby We're very much on the deferensive. Jun 24, 2008

  • palooka The spectre of overpopulation has made sperm superfluous bilby - but not males hopefully. We still have value, don't we?
    Jun 24, 2008

  • bilby All this - a microchipped oldfeller and a horde of sperm ready for a holiday but finding the departure gate locked - sounds excruciating. Jun 24, 2008

  • dontcry I don't know...the vibration might be a selling point. Exhaust, well, that's kind of redundant, isn't it? And noise -- give her an iPod. Jun 24, 2008

  • palooka An implantable sump pump would be ideal dc. Of course the guy receiving it would have to prepare an environmental impact report & have his neighborhood re-zoned light industrial.
    Hopefully sump pumps don't produce much exhaust, noise or vibration. Jun 24, 2008

  • dontcry I'm thinking someone would need a sump-pump pretty quick... *thinking there's a dirty (dirtier) joke in there somewhere...* Jun 23, 2008

  • mollusque Umm, where do the sperm end up then? Jun 23, 2008

  • yarb I wonder if it works the other way? Could be handy in the porn trade. Jun 23, 2008

  • bilby "If you've ever worried about the environmental impact of all those discarded latex condoms, this might be the super-futuristic invention for you! Australian scientists have apparently figured out how to insert a microchip in the vas deferens (that's the part of the male equipment that delivers semen), and when the man is about to have sex, he can press "pause" on a device that sends RF waves to his intimate microchip. The chip translates the waves into acoustic waves, which then cause the chip to expand, blocking sperm from passing through the vas deferens."
    - anon, 'Put a microchip in your penis' on greendaily.com, 13 June 2008. Jun 23, 2008

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