Word for today

[mellicious]

Note: possibly more than slightly TMI, if you're delicate.

epididymis
a coiled tube on the surface of the testis that stores sperm until ejaculation



Yeah, I know. But honestly, had you ever heard that one? (Well, I hadn't, anyway.) Maybe some of you who actually have testes know more about the plumbing than I did up til now.

You may notice a pattern to my "words of the day" - they tend to be obscure, and long. Putting them up here for public consumption somehow helps me remember. -- Also, I sneakly started calling it the "word for today" instead of "word of the day" - less implication that I'm actually going to do this every day. Which clearly is not the case.

Comments

[maribou]

Yeah, we talked about it in health class in (Canadian) high school. And I think it came up in my physiology class in college.

But I think I only remembered it because it sounds so cool when you say it.

[mellificent.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I don't remember discussing how things actually worked in health class. But then that was Texas, and the 70s, and we were probably lucky to get to acknowledge that sex existed at all. (It probably got worse in the 80s, I bet.)

[ursulahitler.livejournal.com]

Heard of it? I've had a few bouts of epididymitis... They made me wish to GOD I'd never heard of the epididymis!

[mellificent.livejournal.com]

Ouch. (I'm sorry to hear that!)

[nonelvis]

I've heard the word before, but damned if I could have remembered what it meant until you posted this.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

Have I heard of it? When Sean Combs changed his nom de noise yet again, it took all my self control not to refer to him as Epi. Diddymus.

True story.

because I am a big ol' geek. also because I believe the man needs as much ridicule as he can get.

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the line in high school biology: How can you tell men and women apart? I'm not sure, but there's a vas deferens.

[anjea.livejournal.com]

I had heard of it! Surprise, I know. :D

[mellificent.livejournal.com]

Apparently practically everybody but me had!