RETE TESTIS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Network of tubules carrying sperm from the seminiferous tubules to the vasa efferentia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("rete testis" is a kind of...):

plexus; rete (a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels)

Holonyms ("rete testis" is a part of...):

ball; ballock; bollock; egg; nut; orchis; testicle; testis (one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens)

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