See Also: Wolffian(dictionary)
Wolffian(medicine)
wolffian tubules(medicine)
wolffian ridge(medicine)
wolffian rest(medicine)
wolffian cyst(medicine)
wolffian body(medicine)
Wolffian duct(medicine)
wolffian duct carcinoma(medicine)
Wolffian duct structures(health)

Wolffian (iou)



Wolffian adjective. M19.
[from Kaspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-94), German embryologist + -IAN.]
Anatomy & Zoology. Designating various embryological structures described by Wolff.
Wolffian body = MESONEPHROS. Wolffian duct the duct of the mesonephros, which is the urinogenital duct in male anamniotes and the vas deferens etc. in male amniotes. Wolffian ridge either of two longitudinal ridges on either side of the embryo on which the limb buds arise.