SEMINAL VESICLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seminal vesicle mean? 

• SEMINAL VESICLE (noun)
  The noun SEMINAL VESICLE has 1 sense:

1. either of a pair of glands located on either side of the male urinary bladder that open into the vas deferens and that secrete many components of semen during ejaculation

  Familiarity information: SEMINAL VESICLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEMINAL VESICLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of a pair of glands located on either side of the male urinary bladder that open into the vas deferens and that secrete many components of semen during ejaculation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("seminal vesicle" is a kind of...):

duct gland; exocrine; exocrine gland (a gland that secretes externally through a duct)

Holonyms ("seminal vesicle" is a part of...):

male reproductive system (the reproductive system of males)

 Context examples 

In a radical cystoprostatectomy, the seminal vesicles are also removed.

(Cystoprostatectomy, NCI Dictionary)

Representative examples include benign prostate phyllodes tumor, benign Sertoli cell tumor, seminal vesicle cystadenoma, and epididymal adenomatoid tumor.

(Benign Male Reproductive System Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Bilateral tubes formed by the joining of the vas deferens and the excretory duct of the seminal vesicle which merge into the urethra after passing through the prostate.

(Ejaculatory Duct, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the hydrolysis of high molecular mass seminal vesicle protein, resulting in the liquefaction of seminal coagulum.

(KLK3 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A blood vessel arising from the anterior side of the internal iliac artery that supplies the base of the bladder, prostate gland and seminal vesicles.

(Inferior Vesical Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

The team next analyzed urine samples collected from a second, independent group of 117 healthy controls and 90 patients with prostate cancer (61 with stage T2, prostate-confined cancer and 29 with stage T3, cancer that’s spread to nearby tissues called seminal vesicles).

(Biomarker Signatures of Prostate Cancer, NIH)