The testicles are held by the spermatic cord, which is a tubelike structure containing blood vessels, nerves, the vas deferens, and a muscle that helps to raise and lower the testicles in response to temperature changes and sexual arousal, in which the testicles are drawn closer to the body.
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In the space of a few thousandths of a second, they discovered, the tadpoles, about a tenth of an inch long, stick their mouths out in a tubelike shape and quickly suck water into it, along with whatever prey ( a brine shrimp makes a tasty morsel ) happens to be there.
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Later, around 9 p . m . at the 20th Precinct in Manhattan, the headquarters for the investigation of the killing, two detectives could be seen carrying two boxes and elongated, tubelike objects wrapped in brown paper, marked with the man's last name and the word, " homicide ."
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Steven Holl's water treatment plant, a stainless steel tubelike building in the Connecticut landscape, is an object lesson in how water is purified _ the tube, shaped like an extruded water droplet ( not its best feature ), is built in such a way that the site ( a 12-acre park ) itself serves as a natural filter for the water pumped through the building's sieves.