Word: scrotum
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...difficult for the surgeon to reach. In the man, a tube called the vas deferens (literally, the "carrying-away vessel") arises from each testicle to carry the spermatozoa to the prostate gland where the seminal fluid is finally compounded for ejaculation through the urethra. Near its origin in the scrotum, the vas deferens is readily accessible to the surgeon's scalpel...
Because of these anatomical differences, the male operation is the simpler. After injecting a local anesthetic, the surgeon makes an incision about half an inch long on one side of the scrotum, draws out one vas, and cuts out a section up to an inch long. He usually cauterizes the remaining stumps of the vas and ties them shut with nonabsorbable thread. The surgeon then sutures the small wound and repeats the procedure on the other side...
...Wyman Pendleton), who mouths Marxist-Leninist platitudes about the irreparable decline of the imperialist West. Another character is a decayed society drone (Nancy Kelly) who recalls her frustrated attempt at suicide together with such intimate details of her sex life as the smooth tautness of her husband's scrotum. Another woman (Sudie Bond) recites the doggerel couplets of a poem called Over the Hill to the Poor house. The fourth character, a man with a pipe, lies silently in a deck chair, exhibiting what can only be called amazing restraint...
...came within a quarter of an inch of taking his life. Sliding down a beam as the roof fell, Piper, 69, plummeted onto the 5-ft.-long, l-in.-thick tool, which had lodged point up in a pile of debris. The crowbar rammed through Piper's scrotum, smashed his pelvis, punctured his intestines, stomach, diaphragm and a lung before stopping within a quarter of an inch to the right of his heart...
...male operation, or vasectomy, is a minor operation-quicker, simpler and cheaper. It is usually done in a doctor's office, under local anesthesia. The surgeon makes a small incision in one side of the scrotum and pulls out a length of the vas deferens, the tube through which spermatozoa pass from the testis on the way to the urethra. He cuts out about half an inch of the tube and ties off both ends, and repeats the operation on the other side. It can all be done in about 15 minutes, for an average...