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a temperature-obsessed organ that fled the body cavity to run cooler outside.
means A testis is one of the two male reproductive glands that produce sperm and the hormone testosterone.
from Straight from Latin testis, meaning "witness." The leading theory holds it was a legal metaphor: the organ served as a "witness" to a man's virility — and the same root gives us testify, testimony, and testament. There's a charming old tale that Roman men swore oaths while clasping their testicles (hence "testify"), but that's almost certainly folk embroidery — the witness sense came first, and the anatomical use likely borrowed it. Whatever the path, testicle is simply the Latin diminutive, the "little witness."
- latin root
- means witness; testify shares the same origin
- temperature
- works best a few degrees below body heat
- sperm factory
- produces millions of cells every single day
- oath tradition
- ancient men allegedly swore by grasping them
- plural quirk
- becomes testes, never testises
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