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 (epididymís), from ἐπί (epi, “upon, over”) + δίδυμος (didumos, “testicle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛpiˈdɪdɪmɪs/

Noun

epididymis (plural epididymides)

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.

Synonyms

• paratesticle

Derived terms

• epididymal
• epididymitis

Translations

tube

• Arabic: بربخ (ar) (barbax) m

  Egyptian Arabic: بربخ (barbax) m

• Armenian: մակամորձի (hy) (makamorji) 
• Asturian: please add this translation if you can
• Bengali: এপিডিডাইমিস (bn)
• Bulgarian: надсеменник (bg) (nadsemennik) m 
• Catalan: epidídim (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 附睾 (fu6 gou1)

  Mandarin: 附睾 (cmn) (fùgāo)

• Czech: nadvarle (cs) n
• Dhivehi: މަނި ގުދަން (dv)
• Dutch: bijbal (nl), paratestikel (nl) m, epididymis (nl) m
• Esperanto: epididimo (eo)
• Estonian: munandimanus (et)
• Finnish: lisäkives (fi)
• French: épididyme (fr) m
• Galician: epidídimo (gl) m
• German: Nebenhoden (de) m
• Greek: επιδιδυμίδα (el) (epididymida) f 
• Hebrew: יותרת האשך (he)

• Hindi: अधिवृषण (hi) (ādhivŕṣaṇ)
• Icelandic: eistalyppa (is) f, eistnalyppa (is) f
• Italian: epididimo (it) m
• Japanese: 精巣上体 (ja) (せいそうじょうたい, seisōjōtai)
• Latin: epididymis (la)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: sėklidės prielipas (lt) m
• Norwegian: bitestikkel (no)
• Persian: بربخ (fa) (barbax)
• Polish: najądrze (pl) n
• Portuguese: epidídimo (pt) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: придаток яичка (ru) (pridátok jaíčka) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пасеменик (sh) m, пасјеменик (sh) m

  Roman: pasemenik (sh) m, pasjemenik (sh) m

• Slovak: nadsemenník (sk) m
• Slovene: obmodek (sl) m
• Spanish: epidídimo (es) m
• Swedish: bitestikel (sv)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Epididymis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia