paroophoron

English

Etymology

From para- +‎ oophoron.

Noun

paroophoron

1. (anatomy) A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, corresponding with the paradidymis of the male.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “paroophoron”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)