seminal vesicle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmɪnəlˌvɛsɪkl/

Noun

seminal vesicle (plural seminal vesicles)

1. (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,^[1]

     Billy made a noise like a small, rusty hinge. He had just emptied his seminal vesicles into Valencia […]

Translations

seminal vesicle

• Arabic: حُوَيْصِلَة مَنَوِيَّة f (ḥuwayṣila manawiyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: حويصلة منوية f (ḥuwayṣela manaweya)

• Armenian: սերմնաբուշտ (hy) (sermnabušt), սերմնաբշտիկ (hy) (sermnabštik)
• Catalan: vesícula seminal f
• Danish: sædblære c
• French: vésicule séminale (fr) f
• Galician: vesícula seminal (gl) f
• Icelandic: sæðisblöðrungur m, sáðblaðra (is) f, sæðiskirtill m
• Italian: vescicola seminale f
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• Latin: vesicula seminalis f
• Lithuanian: sėklinė pūslelė f
• Portuguese: vesícula seminal (pt) f
• Russian: семенно́й пузырёк m (semennoj puzyrjok)
• Spanish: vesícula seminal f, glándula seminal f
• Swedish: sädesblåsa (sv) c
• Tagalog: punlayan