Figure 1.

Mouse and human epididymides.

Mouse: 1, initial segment, proximal caput; 2, midcaput; 3, distal caput; 4, corpus; 5, cauda. Adapted (regional divisions by the author) from Trevor Cooper, University of Muenster (Yeung and Cooper, 2002), with permission of author and publisher, Springer. Human: ED, efferent ducts; 1, anterior caput; 2, posterior caput; 3, anterior corpus; 4, midcorpus; 5, posterior corpus; 6, anterior cauda; 7, posterior cauda; DD, ductus deferens. Reprinted by permission of the author (Dacheux et al., 2006), UMR INRA-CNRS and publisher, Elsevier Limited. Scale bar, 1 cm.