vas deferens

English

Illustration of human vas deferens

Etymology

From New Latin vās dēferēns, itself from vās (“vessel, duct”) +‎ dēferēns (“carrying off”, present active participle of dēferō (“to carry off”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌvæz ˈdɛfəɹəns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

vas deferens (plural vasa deferentia)

2. (anatomy) The duct in the testicle that carries semen from the epididymis to the ejaculatory duct.
   • 2008, Tibor Fischer, Good to Be God, Richmond, London: Alma Books, →ISBN, page 99:

     “Do you love Alexa?” “Woah, I’m not a one-woman man.” Of course not, his vasa deferentia must be on call round-the-clock.

Synonyms

• ductus deferens
• sperm duct
• spermiduct
• spermoduct
• spermaduct

Hypernyms

• Wolffian duct - embryological precursor
• internal genitalia

Derived terms

• deferentectomy

Translations

vas deferens

• Arabic: قَنَاة مَنَوِيَّة f (qanāh manawiyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: قناة منوية f (qanāa manaweia)

• Armenian: սերմնածորան (hy) (sermnacoran)
• Bulgarian: семепровод m (semeprovod), семенно каналче n (semenno kanalče)
• Catalan: conducte deferent m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 輸精管 / 输精管 (syu¹ zing¹ gun²)

  Mandarin: 輸精管 / 输精管 (zh) (shūjīngguǎn)

• Czech: chámovod (cs) m
• Danish: sædleder c
• Dhivehi: ަނި ހޮޅ
• Dutch: zaadleider (nl)
• Esperanto: spermodukto
• Estonian: seemnejuha
• Finnish: siemenjohdin (fi)
• French: canal déférent (fr) m, conduit déférent (fr) m, spermiducte (fr) m
• German: Samenleiter m
• Hebrew: צינור הזרע (he)
• Hungarian: ondóvezető, ondóvezeték (hu)
• Icelandic: sáðrás (is) f
• Italian: dotto deferente, vaso deferente, canale deferente, deferente (it) m
• Japanese: 精管 (ja) (せいかん, seikan), 輸精管 (ja) (ゆせいかん, yuseikan)
• Kazakh: шәует шығаратын түтік (šäwet šığaratın tütik)
• Khmer: បំពង់យ៉ង (bɑmpŭəng yɑɑng)
• Korean: 정관 (ko) (jeonggwan), 수정관 (ko) (sujeonggwan)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: lûleya guhêzer f

• Latin: vas deferens, ductus deferens
• Latvian: sēklvads m, sēklas vads m
• Lithuanian: sėklinis latakas
• Māori: ara waitātea, ara tātea
• Persian: مجرای وابران (mejrây-e vâbarân)
• Polish: nasieniowód (pl) m
• Portuguese: ducto deferente, canal deferente (pt)
• Romanian: vas deferent n
• Russian: семявынося́щий прото́к (ru) m (semjavynosjáščij protók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: семеновод m, сјеменовод m

  Latin: semenovod m, sjemenovod (sh) m

• Slovak: semenovod m
• Slovene: semenovod (sl)
• Spanish: vaso deferente m, conducto deferente m
• Swedish: sädesledare (sv) c
• Tagalog: anurang-punlay
• Telugu: శుక్రవాహిక (te) (śukravāhika)
• Thai: ท่อนำอสุจิ (tôr nam à-sù-jì)
• Turkish: vas deferans, vas deferans kanalı
• Ukrainian: сі́м'явивідна́ прото́ка m (símʺjavyvidná protóka)
• ǃXóõ: ǂqhàn-tê ǃkxʻái

See also

• vasectomy

Latin

Noun

vās dēferēns n (genitive vāsis dēferentis); third declension

1. (New Latin, anatomy) vas deferens

   Synonym: ductus dēferēns

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem) with a third-declension participle.

	singular	plural
nominative	vās dēferēns	vāsa dēferentia
genitive	vāsis dēferentis	vāsōrum dēferentium
dative	vāsī dēferentī	vāsīs dēferentibus
accusative	vās dēferēns	vāsa dēferentia
ablative	vāse dēferente vāse dēferentī	vāsīs dēferentibus
vocative	vās dēferēns	vāsa dēferentia

Descendants

• English: vas deferens