Citations:vas rectum

English citations of vas rectum and vasa recta

• 1750, Albert Haller, ‘Of the paſſages of the ſemen’ in The Philoſophical Tranſactions (1743–1750) Abridged (London: Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers, againſt Gray’s-Inn-Gate, Holborn), volume 10 (1756), ed. John Martyn, part III: “The Anatomical and Medical Papers”, page 1,092

  This therefore is the fabrick of the teſticle, that a yellowiſh ſemen is generated in the vaſcula ſerpentina, is ſent down into the vasa recta, and thence depoſited in the rete under the albuginea, and then comes thro’ the tortuous vaſcula efferentia into the epididymis. From the epididymis the path of the ſemen is twofold, one hidden of which we ſhall not ſpeak in this place, and other commonly known, to the veſiculæ. I have now thrice diſcovered it by throwing in quickſilver.

• 1843, Thomas Blizard Curling, ‘A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Testis, and of the Spermatic Chord and Scrotum’ in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black; London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans; Dublin: John Cumming, and Hodges & Smith), volume 60, part II: “Critical Analysis”, article ii, page 216

  The convolutions of the seminiferous tubes diminish in number as they approach the mediastinum and cease at a distance of from one to two lines, where two or more unite to form one single, straight duct termed vas rectum, which joins the rete testis at a right angle. The vasa recta are very slender, and easily give way when injected. Their calibre, which is greater than that of the seminal tubes, is estimated by Lauth at 1.108th of an inch. Their number Haller reckoned at 20; but it is believed that they are more numerous.

• 1858, Lionel Smith Beale, Illustrations of the Constituents of Urine, Urinary Deposits, and Calculi (London: John Churchill, New Burlington Street), “Anatomy of the Kidney”, ‘Explanation of the Plate’, Fig. 1. g., page 3

  Long and almost straight vessels (vasa recta), into which the efferent vessel of those tufts situated at the bases of the pyramids, divides. These straight vessels may be traced for some distance towards the apex of the cone.

• 1889, Edward Klein, Elements of Histology (4th ed., Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co.), chapter XXXI: “The Male Genital Organs”, page 264

  The seminal tubules of each lobule pass into a short straight tubule, the vas rectum.

• 1990, Jay H. Stein, Internal Medicine (3rd ed.; Little, Brown and Company; →ISBN, 9780316812290), page 395

  Bleeding from colonic diverticula is caused by rupture of the underlying vas rectum.

• 2000, Christopher J. Lote, Principles of Renal Physiology (4th ed.; Kluwer Academic Publishers; →ISBN, 0792361784), chapter 6: “The loop of Henle, distal tubule and collecting duct”, § 6.4: ‘Further requirements of the countercurrent multiplication mechanism: the vasa recta’, page 78

  The vasa recta are capillaries, mostly derived from the efferent arterioles of juxtamedullary nephrons, which have a ‘hairpin’ arrangement and dip far down into the renal medulla.