seminal vesicle
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈsɛmɪnəl ˈvɛsɪkəl/
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, 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 […]
- 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, 2005, Chapter 5, p. 151,
- French: vésicule séminale
- Italian: vescicola seminale
- Portuguese: vesícula seminal
- Russian: семенно́й пузырёк
- Spanish: vesícula seminal, glándula seminal
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