testicular duct [FBbt_00004957]
Duct connecting the testis and the seminal vesicles in the adult male genitalia. It is 80 micrometers long and 23 micrometers in diameter, making a single spiral turn. It has a narrow lumen, surrounded by a thick epithelium containing small, closely spaced nuclei. It is covered in an inner sheath and an outer pigment sheath, as in the seminal vesicles.
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