seminal vesicle

seminal vesicle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmɪnəl ˈvɛsɪkəl/

Noun

seminal vesicle (plural seminal vesicles)

1. (anatomy) One of two simple tubular glands located behind the male urinary bladder, responsible for the production of about sixty percent of the fluid that ultimately becomes semen.
   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, 2005, Chapter 5, p. 151,

     Billy made a noise like a small, rusty hinge. He had just emptied his seminal vesicles into Valencia […]

Translations

seminal vesicle

Arabic: حُوَيْصِلَة مَنَوِيَّة‎ f (ḥuwayṣila manawiyya) Egyptian Arabic: حويصلة منوية‎ f (ḥuwayṣela manaweya) Armenian: սերմնաբուշտ (hy) (sermnabušt), սերմնաբշտիկ (hy) (sermnabštik) Catalan: vesícula seminal f Chinese: Mandarin: 精囊 (zh) (jīngnáng) Czech: semenný váček m Danish: sædblære c French: vésicule séminale (fr) f Galician: vesícula seminal (gl) f German: Bläschendrüse f, Samenblase f, Samenbläschen n Hungarian: ondóhólyag (hu) Icelandic: sæðisblöðrungur m, sáðblaðra (is) f, sæðiskirtill m Indonesian: vesikula seminalis Italian: vescicola seminale f Japanese: 精嚢 (seinō) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: çikildanê tovavê m Latin: vesicula seminalis f Lithuanian: sėklinė pūslelė f Malay: vesikel semen Portuguese: vesícula seminal (pt) f Russian: семенно́й пузырёк m (semennój puzyrjók) Slovak: semenný mechúrik m Spanish: vesícula seminal f, glándula seminal f Swedish: sädesblåsa (sv) c Tagalog: punlayan