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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of two or three twisted, curved tubules in each lobule of the testis in which spermatozoa develop.
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- noun anatomy Any of many
threadlike structures, located in thetestes , that are the specialized areas ofsperm production.
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- noun any of the numerous long convoluted tubules in the testis which are the sites where spermatozoa mature
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