Question

Epididymis is

• A. Network of sinuses between seminiferous tubules and vasa efferentia.
• B. Intermediate structure between rete testis and vasa efferentia.
• C. A long coiled tube between vasa efferentia and vas deferens.
• D. Connection between vas deferens and seminal vesicle.

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

A long coiled tube between vasa efferentia and vas deferens.

The testis is the primary sex organ in males. Each testis has 250 testicular lobules. Each lobule has 1-3 highly coiled seminiferous tubules. These seminiferous tubules open into the vasa efferentia through rete testis. The vasa efferentia opens into the epididymis which is highly convoluted and has 3 parts- caput, corpus and cauda epididymis. The cauda epididymis continues to form the vas deferens. Vas deferens transfers the sperms mixed with semen to the ejaculatory duct.

So the correct answer is C.