spermatic

Our continuing pieties about sex are reflected in the way some modern field guides describe the distinctive odor of mushrooms like Inocybes as ‘‘unmentionable’’ or ‘‘disgusting’’ rather than the more accurate ‘‘spermatic.’’

Some break the spermatic cord without tearing it; they twist it, and then pull it gently and finally until it gives way.

They may extend from the uterus through the internal spermatic, or through the hypogastric and common iliac veins, to the vena cava.

Tearing Pains: In occiput; in right cheek bone; in upper molars; in spermatic cords; in muscles of left leg; disturb sleep.

Varicocele, var′i-kō-sēl, n. an enlargement of the veins of the spermatic cord, or sometimes of the veins of the scrotum.