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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cordlike structure, consisting of the vas deferens and its accompanying arteries, veins, nerves, and lymphatic vessels, that passes from the abdominal cavity through the inguinal canal down into the scrotum to the back of the testicle.
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- noun a structure resembling a cord that suspends the testis within the scrotum and contains the vas deferens and other vessels and nerves
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