How to Use testis in a Sentence

testis

noun

• The remaining part of the raw squid consisted of the testis and the sperm bags.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2012
• This surgery cuts the vas deferens, which are tubes that carry sperm from the testes to the urethra.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health, 19 June 2024
• Sites of immune privilege include the brain and testes, as well as the eye.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 19 July 2017
• The actor, who uses they/them pronouns, did not have testes as a kid.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
• The testes, almost alone among the organs that have been tested, don’t seem to have a clock either.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2015
• Source of prostates and testes, muscles and machismo, chest hair, and according to some, even math skills.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
• These glands in the brain produce hormones that signal the testes to produce testosterone.
  — Rachel Gurevich, Parents, 30 July 2024
• Astronauts crushed the testes and used the sperm to fertilize eggs obtained from the female frogs.
  — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
• The right testis was not visualized in the scrotal sac or in the right inguinal region.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2013
• The human testes had almost triple the amount of microplastics than canine testes.
  — John Loeppky, Verywell Health, 30 May 2024
• The treatment is called an orchiectomy, which is the removal of the testis via the lower abdomen wall.
  — Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 14 Dec. 2017
• Inherit an X from mom and a Y from dad, and develop testes and a penis.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 12 May 2017
• In males, estrogen is produced in the testes and, similar to women, in fat cells and adrenal glands.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
• Pain may extend to the testes, rectum, or lower abdomen.
  — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 1 June 2023
• Male dragonflies have two sets of genitals and move sperm from the testes into the penis.
  — National Geographic, 16 July 2016
• At the age of 10, however, Hanne underwent surgery to remove her testes.
  — Sarah Brody, Teen Vogue, 26 June 2017
• Our analyses are showing high concentrations of DDT in the testes and ovaries of breeding birds.
  — Rachel Carson, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1950
• The disorder: Trans men, being trans, are born without testes.
  — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 15 Sep. 2023
• Hawley never mentions that men must have testes, chest hair or Adam’s apples.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• Estrogen is also produced in smaller amounts in the testes.
  — Elizabeth Boskey, Verywell Health, 5 June 2023
• This study also looked at a couple of other hormones produced by the testes and found that they, too, were reduced by ibuprofen.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2018
• This gene indirectly turns on another gene called Sox9, which kick-starts the construction of the testes.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 14 June 2018
• The tissue was acquired from males who had died in accidents and whose testes had been preserved post-autopsy.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
• They are produced in higher quantities in people with testes than in people with ovaries.
  — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 11 July 2024
• But, whereas Martínez-Patiño’s body was completely unable to use the testosterone produced by her testes, Semenya’s body is able to use some.
  — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023
• During a vasectomy, doctors cut or block the vas deferens, one of two tubes in the scrotum that carries sperm from the testes to the urethra, in two places.
  — Dara T. Mathis, SELF, 29 Aug. 2019
• Testosterone, which is produced in abundance by male testes, has been shown to tamp down inflammation.
  — Author: Chris Mooney, Sarah Kaplan, Brady Dennis, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2020
• At six weeks, the gonad switches on the developmental pathway to become an ovary or a testis.
  — Claire Ainsworth, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2018
• Only when the two are ready to mate will ovaries and egg-laying machinery populate the female’s genital tract, while the male sprouts testes.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• The male squirrels appeared normal — their testes were nice and big — but their internal plumbing wasn’t online yet.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024