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/

Noun

epididymis (plural epididymides or epididymises)

1. (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.

Hypernyms

• Wolffian duct - embryological precursor
• internal genitalia

Derived terms

• epididymal
• epididymectomy
• epididymitis
• epididymosome
• epididymotomy
• parepididymis

Translations

tube

• Arabic: بَرْبَخ m (barbaḵ)

  Egyptian Arabic: بربخ m (barbaḵ)

• Armenian: մակամորձի (makamorji)
• Asturian: epidídimu m
• Bengali: এপিডিডাইমিস (epiḍiḍaimiś)
• 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

See also

• epididymis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπιδιδυμίς (epididumís).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /e.piˈdi.dy.mis/, [ɛpɪˈd̪ɪd̪ʏmɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.piˈdi.di.mis/, [epiˈd̪iːd̪imis]

Noun

epididymis f (genitive epididymidis); third declension

1. (New Latin) epididymis

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	epididymis	epididymidēs
genitive	epididymidis	epididymidum
dative	epididymidī	epididymidibus
accusative	epididymidem	epididymidēs
ablative	epididymide	epididymidibus
vocative	epididymis	epididymidēs