How to Use testis in a Sentence

testis

noun

• Or a bluehead wrasse who had ovaries becomes a bluehead wrasse who has testes.
  — Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2025
• The actor, who uses they/them pronouns, did not have testes as a kid.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
• The remaining part of the raw squid consisted of the testis and the sperm bags.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2012
• Sites of immune privilege include the brain and testes, as well as the eye.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 19 July 2017
• This surgery cuts the vas deferens, which are tubes that carry sperm from the testes to the urethra.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health, 19 June 2024
• The testes, almost alone among the organs that have been tested, don’t seem to have a clock either.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2015
• People with either testes or ovaries are most common, but some people have both, and a few have ovotestes.
  — Agustín Fuentes, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2025
• Source of prostates and testes, muscles and machismo, chest hair, and according to some, even math skills.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
• The human testes had almost triple the amount of microplastics than canine testes.
  — John Loeppky, Verywell Health, 30 May 2024
• These glands in the brain produce hormones that signal the testes to produce testosterone.
  — Rachel Gurevich, Parents, 30 July 2024
• Hawley never mentions that men must have testes, chest hair or Adam’s apples.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• This is a condition where a male infant is born with one testis or both testes undescended.
  — Sarah Bradley, Health, 9 Oct. 2024
• The right testis was not visualized in the scrotal sac or in the right inguinal region.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2013
• They are produced in higher quantities in people with testes than in people with ovaries.
  — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 11 July 2024
• Astronauts crushed the testes and used the sperm to fertilize eggs obtained from the female frogs.
  — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
• In males, estrogen is produced in the testes and, similar to women, in fat cells and adrenal glands.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
• Testosterone, which is produced in abundance by male testes, has been shown to tamp down inflammation.
  — Author: Chris Mooney, Sarah Kaplan, Brady Dennis, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2020
• The treatment is called an orchiectomy, which is the removal of the testis via the lower abdomen wall.
  — Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 14 Dec. 2017
• The tissue was acquired from males who had died in accidents and whose testes had been preserved post-autopsy.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
• While testes also change with age, releasing less testosterone over time, their decline is slow and gradual.
  — Celia Ford, Vox, 12 Aug. 2024
• In papers last year, the researchers showed that microplastics were present in human testes and placentas.
  — Nina Agrawal, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
• This study also looked at a couple of other hormones produced by the testes and found that they, too, were reduced by ibuprofen.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2018
• The male squirrels appeared normal — their testes were nice and big — but their internal plumbing wasn’t online yet.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
• At six weeks, the gonad switches on the developmental pathway to become an ovary or a testis.
  — Claire Ainsworth, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2018
• This may help to explain why male marsupial moles lack a scrotum and have their testes perched in their abdominal wall.
  — Charles Feigin / The Conversation, Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2025
• The progesterone analogue blocks the testes from producing normal levels of sperm.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 21 Dec. 2017
• At the age of 10, however, Hanne underwent surgery to remove her testes.
  — Sarah Brody, Teen Vogue, 26 June 2017
• Those with two X chromosomes and ovaries lived longest, followed by mice with two X chromosomes and testes.
  — Mohana Ravindranath, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
• Eventually, the male loses all his organs, save for his testes, and the female can carry multiple males at once.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2024
• For instance, some kids with ovaries start puberty as young as age 8 or 9, while those with testes start puberty a little later.
  — Jennifer O'Donnell, Parents, 2 July 2024