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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The embryonic duct of the mesonephros, which in the male becomes the vas deferens and in both sexes gives rise to the ureter.

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  • noun a paired organ found in mammals including humans during embryogenesis

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Kaspar Friedrich Wolff.]

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