seminiferous
IPA: sɛmʌnˈɪfɝʌs
adjective
- (botany) producing seed
- (anatomy) conveying, containing, bearing, or producing semen or seminal fluid
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Examples of "seminiferous" in Sentences
- It is located in the seminiferous tubules of the testis.
- Amphibians and most fish do not possess seminiferous tubules.
- The seminiferous tubules are formed from primitive sex cords.
- Spermatozoa develop in the seminiferous tubules of the testes.
- FSH stimulates maturation of seminiferous tubules and spermatogenesis.
- Seminoma originates in the germinal epithelium of the seminiferous tubules.
- In the testis, a network of tubules fuse to create the seminiferous tubules.
- The spermatozoa are formed in the walls of the convoluted seminiferous tubules.
- From the cords the seminiferous tubules are developed, and between them connective-tissue septa extend.
- Irony Boy was chatting with two other sperm in the seminiferous tubules when everything started to shake.
- The testis is a pretty awesome organ, comprised mainly of a bunch of coiled loops called seminiferous tubules.
- The seminiferous tubules become connected with outgrowths from the Wolffian body, which, as before mentioned, form the efferent ducts of the testis.
- Irony Boy was really angry at his father, and missed all the days of just being a sperm, relaxing with his friends deep in the seminiferous tubules of the testicles.
- The seminiferous tubules unite to form the efferent ducts (_vasa efferentia_), about a dozen in number for each testicle; immediately passing out of the testicle, these efferent ducts make up the
- Although they have fully developed secondary sexual characters and show libido, their testes do not produce spermatozoa because the seminiferous tubules are poorly developed and the spermatogonia and their nuclei are degenerate.
- When I snapped my first picture under the electron microscope, I was breathless at the detail of the image: I could see the long, lovely arch of the interior of a seminiferous tubule and a great mass of flagella whipping out into the lumen.
- Finally, certain internal physiological processes may be the starting-point of the afferent physical stimuli leading to erection; for example, distension of the bladder, and also of the seminal vesicles, and of the seminiferous tubules of the testicle.
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