epididymis

English

1: Epididymis
2: Head of epididymis
3: Lobules of epididymis
4: Body of epididymis
5: Tail of epididymis
6: Duct of epididymis
7: Deferent duct (ductus deferens or vas deferens)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπιδιδυμίς (epididumís), from ἐπί (epí, “upon, over”) + δίδυμος (dídumos, “twin; testicle”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛpiˈdɪdɪmɪs/
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Noun

epididymis (plural epididymides or epididymises)

(anatomy) A narrow, tightly-coiled tube connecting the efferent ducts from the rear of each testicle to its vas deferens, where sperm are stored during maturation.
- 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 332:
  Most men, I daresay, have never heard of their epididymis.

Derived terms

epididymal
epididymectomy
epididymitis
epididymosome
epididymotomy
parepididymis

Translations

tube

Arabic: بَرْبَخ‎ m (barbaḵ)
Egyptian Arabic: بربخ‎ m (barbaḵ)
Armenian: մակամորձի (makamorji)
Asturian: please add this translation if you can
Bengali: এপিডিডাইমিস (epiḍiḍaimis)
Bulgarian: надсеменник m (nadsemennik)
Catalan: epidídim m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 附睪, 附睾 (fu⁶ gou¹)
Mandarin: 附睪／附睾 (zh) (fùgāo)
Czech: nadvarle n
Dhivehi: މަނި ގުދަން‎ (mani gudan̊)
Dutch: bijbal (nl), paratestikel m, epididymis m
Esperanto: epididimo
Estonian: munandimanus
Finnish: lisäkives (fi)
French: épididyme (fr) m
Galician: epidídimo (gl) m
German: Nebenhoden (de) m
Greek: επιδιδυμίδα (el) f (epididymída)
Ancient: ἐπιδιδυμίς f (epididumís)
Hebrew: יותרת האשך‎
Hindi: अधिवृषण (adhivŕṣaṇ)
Hungarian: mellékhere (hu)
Icelandic: eistalyppa f, eistnalyppa f, eistnabróðir m
Italian: epididimo m
Japanese: 精巣上体 (せいそうじょうたい, seisōjōtai)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: aloze f
Latin: epididymis
Latvian: sēklinieka piedēklis m
Lithuanian: sėklidės prielipas m
Maori: pōkai tātea
Norwegian: bitestikkel
Persian: بربخ‎ (barbax)
Polish: najądrze (pl) n
Portuguese: epidídimo (pt) m
Romanian: epididim n
Russian: прида́ток яи́чка m (pridátok jaíčka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пасеменик m, пасјеменик m
Roman: pasemenik m, pasjemenik (sh) m
Slovak: nadsemenník m
Slovene: obmodek m
Spanish: epidídimo (es) m
Swedish: bitestikel (sv)
Tagalog: puno ng anurang-punlay
Turkish: epididimis (tr)
Urdu: please add this translation if you can