2. Noun. (slang) testicles ¹
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Definition of Gonads
1. gonad [n] - See also: gonad
Medical Definition of Gonads
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gonads
Literary usage of Gonads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"The gonads are simple or branched sacs of various shapes which project into the
... At the posterior end of each row of gonads, a constant formation of new ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"States of Over-function of the gonads ... there are cases that at present must
he regarded as primary disturbances in the gonads that lead to ..."
3. The coral Siderastrea radians and its postlarval development by J[ames] E[dwin] Duerden (1904)
"gonads. Among all the polyps which have been examined anatomically ova only have
been found to occur. The polyps studied were taken from colonies other than ..."
4. Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Robert Wiedersheim (1907)
"The gonads ("Generative Glands"). The sexual cells, which give rise to the ova and
... Primitively the gonads had a segmental arrangement, and extended ..."
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