vas deferens

English

Etymology

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

Noun

vas deferens (plural vasa deferentia or vasa deferentes)

1. (anatomy) The duct in the testicle that carries semen from the epididymis to the ejaculatory duct.

Synonyms

• ductus deferens

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), 输精管 (syu¹ zing¹ gun²)

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

• Czech: chámovod m
• Danish: sædleder c
• Dhivehi: ަނި ހޮޅ
• Dutch: zaadleider (nl)
• 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
• Icelandic: sáðrás (is) f
• Italian: dotto deferente, vaso deferente, canale deferente, deferente (it) m
• Japanese: 精管 (せいかん, seikan)
• Kazakh: шәует шығаратын түтік (şäuet şyğaratyn tütık)
• Korean: 정관 (ko) (jeonggwan), 수정관 (ko) (sujeonggwan)
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• Latin: vas deferens, ductus deferens
• Latvian: sēklvads m, sēklas vads m
• Lithuanian: sėklinis latakas
• Maori: ara waitātea, ara tātea
• 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

  Roman: 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