Sentences with phrase «vas deferens»

The term «vasectomy» comes from the name of the tubes in your scrotum that are blocked during the procedure: vas deferens.

Sperm leaves the testicles through two tubes called the vas deferens, and mixes with other fluids to make semen (cum).

A vasectomy blocks or cuts each vas deferens tube, keeping sperm out of your semen.

The vas deferens are severed by small incisions and tied or sealed.

For puppies with both testicles descended, the next step is the clipping of the vas deferens and the removal of the testicles, which takes ten to twenty minutes.

The vas deferens and the blood supply to the area are tied off, and the small incision is closed with surgical glue, staples, or in rare cases, sutures.

Male rabbits can still have living sperm in ducts within the spermatic cord called the vas deferens, which can not be removed during surgery.

Neutering is essentially the surgical procedure removing the testes, testicular epididymi, testicular blood vessels, and the spermatic ducts (vas deferens or ductus deferens).

Note that male rabbits can still have living sperm (that can last for two weeks) in the portion of the spermatic cord (vas deferens), which is still in place after surgery.

Otherwise known as a vascectomy, male sterilization involves cutting or blocking the vas deferens, the tubes sperm travel through from the testicles.

This can be caused by scarring from an infection, a vasectomy (surgery to cut the vas deferens and prevent passage of sperm), or cystic fibrosis (a genetic disease).

This imaging test is to look for enlarged veins around the testes, tumors, or a blockage in the vas deferens.

In 10 — 20 % of cases, the problem is a blockage in the sperm's path from the testes, through tubes called the vas deferens to the penis.

Sperm was also extracted from the vas deferens in a separate well and then removed from the plate.

For motility analysis, sperm were extracted into a 35 - mm well with 500 μl of M2 media (Sigma - Aldrich), exerting soft pressure from the cauda epididymis to the end of the vas deferens with a watchmaker's tweezers.

«Up until a certain age, boys and girls, as fetuses, are indistinguishable, really, so women retain some remnants of the vas deferens, which is the canal that sperm follows,» Newman answers.

One potential option on the horizon is a gel injection that blocks sperm from traveling through the vas deferens, a duct in the male reproductive system.

Vasalgel works by injecting a polymer into the vas deferens — the duct which conveys sperm from the testicle to the urethra — forming a semi-solid plug which blocks viable sperm passing through.

In males, the Wolffian duct develops into the parts needed to ejaculate sperm, including the epididymis, vas deferens and seminal vesicles.

A doctor cuts or blocks the two tubes — called the vas deferens — that carry sperm from the testes to the pouch in the scrotum that holds the semen prior to ejaculation.

He cut a small hole in my scrotum, and with a forceps pulled out the vas deferens, the tube that carried sperm to my penis.