Caudal vs Gubernaculum - What's the difference?
caudal | gubernaculum |
(zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
* Darwin
* 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 3:
(anatomy) Either of a pair of folds of peritoneum that attach to the caudal end of the gonads (testes in males and ovaries in females).
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As nouns the difference between caudal and gubernaculum
is that caudal is a caudal vertebra while gubernaculum is either of a pair of folds of peritoneum that attach to the caudal end of the gonads (testes in males and ovaries in females).As an adjective caudal
is pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.caudal
English
Adjective
(-)- the male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes
- Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal appendages of half a dozen wildebeests.