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These nutrient vessels, called the vasa vasorum, arise from a branch of the artery, or from a neighboring vessel, at some considerable distance from the point at which they are distributed; they ramify in the loose areolar tissue connecting the artery with its sheath, and are distributed to the external coat, but do not, in man, penetrate the other coats; in some of the larger mammals a few vessels have been traced into the middle coat.
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I guess cauterized vasa deferentia are Knuckle Tattoos 2.0.
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Cauterized vasa deferentia are Scrotum Tattoos 2.0.
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The doctor then cuts the vasa next to the clamp, removes all the toolery, and sutures the incisions closed.
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Ita mente exagitati sunt, ut in triremi se constitutos putarent, marique vadabundo tempestate jactatos, proinde naufragium veriti, egestis undique rebus vasa omnia in viam e fenestris, seu in mare praecipitarunt: postridie, &c. 2394.
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April 17th, 2009 at 9:42 pm vasa cyber casinos says:
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It involves minor surgery to cut the vasa deferentia, the tubes that carry sperm from the testes to the penis.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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Because sperm are already in the vasa deferentia, men are not sterile immediately.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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The practitioner applies a local anesthetic (such as lidocaine), makes one or two small incisions in the scrotum, locates the two vasa deferentia (singular: vas deferens), removes a piece of each, and ties off the ends.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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Ponti, facit quoddam mare versus Aquilonem, habens in latitudine et longitudine septinginta, milliaria, nusquam habens profunditatem vltra sex passus, vnde magna vasa non ingrediuntur illud.
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