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epididymis

In male vertebrates, a long coiled tubule in the testis, in which sperm produced in the seminiferous tube are stored. In men, it is a duct about 6 m/20 ft long, convoluted into a small space.



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Postmortem specimens submitted included blood, bone marrow, lymph nodes, kidney, spleen, liver, brain, testes, epididymis, ovaries, and neoplasms.
They noticed that the epididymis adds the protein Eppin to the surface of sperm as they mature.
Consonant with this, Rosella (1994) relates the fact that half of men present for medical attention and are diagnosed once the disease has spread further than the testicles, epididymis, and spermatic cord due to "delay behaviour" and to the "extremely rapid growth of testicular tumours" (p.
 
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