- Wolff duct
- (voolf) [Kaspar Friedrich Wolff, German anatomist and physiologist, 1733–1794] see mesonephric duct, under duct.
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Wolff duct
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duct of Wolff — wolffian duct mesonephric d … Medical dictionary
Wolff — Julius, German anatomist, 1836–1902. See W. law. Kaspar F., German embryologist in Russia, 1733–1794. See wolffian body, wolffian cyst, wolffian duct, wolffian rest, wolffian ridge, wolffian tubules, under tubule. Louis, U.S. cardiologist,… … Medical dictionary
Mesonephric duct — Urogenital sinus of female human embryo of eight and a half to nine weeks old … Wikipedia
Wolffian duct — Infobox Embryology Name = PAGENAME Latin = d. mesonephricus, d. Wolffi GraySubject = 252 GrayPage = 1205 Caption = Urogenital sinus of female human embryo of eight and a half to nine weeks old. Caption2 = Transverse section of a chick embryo of… … Wikipedia
Wolffian duct — Wolffian Wolff i*an, a. (Anat.) Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733 1794), the founder of modern embryology. [1913 Webster] {Wolffian body}, the mesonephros. {Wolffian duct}, the duct from the Wolffian body. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
wolffian duct — noun Usage: often capitalized W Etymology: wolffian (II) : mesonephric duct * * * (sometimes l.c.) Embryol. a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females. [1875 80; named after K.… … Useful english dictionary
Wolffian duct — (sometimes l.c.) Embryol. a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females. [1875 80; named after K. F. WOLFF; see IAN] * * * ▪ kidney anatomy also called Archinephric Duct, … … Universalium
mesonephric duct — n WOLFFIAN DUCT * * * an embryonic duct which, initiated in association with rudiments of the pronephric kidney, is taken over as an excretory duct by the mesonephros, and develops into the epididymis, the ductus deferens and its ampulla, the… … Medical dictionary
Wolffian duct — noun Etymology: Kaspar Friedrich Wolff Date: 1876 the duct of the mesonephros that persists in the female chiefly as part of a vestigial organ and in the male as the duct system leaving the testis and including the epididymis, vas deferens,… … New Collegiate Dictionary
Wolffian duct structures — adj. embryonic structures (named after Kaspar Friedrich Wolff) that develop into the interior reproductive systerm of the male attached to the testicles … English contemporary dictionary
