seminal vesicle
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[edit]seminal vesicle (plural seminal vesicles)
- (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, chapter 5, in Slaughterhouse-Five[1], New York: Dial, published 2005, page 151:
- Billy made a noise like a small, rusty hinge. He had just emptied his seminal vesicles into Valencia […]
Hypernyms
[edit]- Wolffian ducts - embryological precursor
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[edit]seminal vesicle
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