RETE TESTIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rete testis mean? 

• RETE TESTIS (noun)
  The noun RETE TESTIS has 1 sense:

1. network of tubules carrying sperm from the seminiferous tubules to the vasa efferentia

  Familiarity information: RETE TESTIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETE TESTIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Network of tubules carrying sperm from the seminiferous tubules to the vasa efferentia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("rete testis" is a kind of...):

plexus; rete (a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels)

Holonyms ("rete testis" is a part of...):

ball; ballock; bollock; egg; nut; orchis; testicle; testis (one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens)

 Context examples 

A Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor characterized by the presence of spaces that resemble rete testis (retiform elements).

(Ovarian Sertoli-Leydig Cell Tumor with Retiform Elements, NCI Thesaurus)

A Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor of the ovary in which anastomosing, slit-like spaces resembling rete testis constitute at least 90% of the tumor elements.

(Ovarian Retiform Sertoli-Leydig Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)