vas

[Latin vās, vessel.]

A duct or vessel.

Pl. vasa [L.] a vessel.

• v. aberrans — 1. a blind tube sometimes connected with the epididymis; a vestigial mesonephric tube.
— 2. any anomalous or unusual vessel.
• v. afferentia — vessels that convey fluid to a structure or part.
• v. brevia — short vessels such as the gastric arteries.
• v. deferens — the excretory duct of the testis which conveys spermatozoa from the tail of the epididymis to the pelvic urethra and which sometimes unites with the excretory duct of the seminal vesicle to form the ejaculatory duct; called also ductus deferens.
• v. efferentia — vessels that convey fluid away from a structure or part.
• v. lymphatica — lymphatic vessels.
• v. recta — straight vessels, such as the long U-shaped vessels arising from the efferent glomerular arterioles of juxtamedullary nephrons and supplying the renal medulla.
• v. vasorum — the small nutrient arteries and veins in the walls of the larger blood vessels.

VAS is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:

• Vaccine Associated Sarcoma
• Value-added service, a telecommunications industry concept
• Value-added software
• Vehicle activated sign, road traffic signs triggered by traffic
• Vermont Astronomical Society
• Victory at Sea, naval wargames rules published by Mongoose Publishing
• Virtual address space, a feature of modern operating systems
• Virtual asset sales, a business model for online games.
• Virtual-Agent Services, a telephone outsourcing company
• Visual analogue scale
• Visual-added software
• ViXi appreciation society

Vas may also refer to:

• Vas County, a county of Hungary
• Vas (band)

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - vas, kar, kanal

idioms:

• vas deferens    sædleder

Nederlands (Dutch)
vat/buis/leider (anatomisch)

Français (French)
n. - conduit, canal

idioms:

• vas deferens    (Anat) vas deferens (canal séminal vers l'urètre)

Deutsch (German)
n. - (Blut)gefäß, Gang

idioms:

• vas deferens    Samenleiter

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (φυσιολ.) αγγείο

idioms:

• vas deferens    (ιατρ.) σπερματαγωγός πόρος

Italiano (Italian)
vaso, dotto

idioms:

• vas deferens    vaso deferente

Português (Portuguese)
n. - vaso (m) canal (m) (Anat.) (Biol.) (Bot.)

idioms:

• vas deferens    vaso deferente (Anat.)

Русский (Russian)
сосуд, проток

idioms:

• vas deferens    семявыносящий проток

Español (Spanish)
n. - vaso, conducto

idioms:

• vas deferens    conducto deferente

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kärl

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
血管, 脉管

idioms:

• vas deferens    输精管

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 血管, 脈管

idioms:

• vas deferens    輸精管

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 관, 맥관, 도관

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 管

idioms:

• vas deferens    精管

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) وعاء, وعاء دموي, قناة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮עורק, צינור‬

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