Royalton -> RE: Peculiar Displaced Testicle Pain (8/22/2006 10:07:53 PM)
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The testicles are normally hanging inside the scrotum (sac), but there are a series of structures that connect the testicles with the rest of the body: arteries and veins (for blood supply), vas deferens (tubes that carry the spermatozoids to the seminal vesicle -which is next to the prostate- to form and store the semen), and nerves. As they enter the body -right at the groin-, all these structures are surrounded by a series of muscles that form some sort of tubular passages. (one for each testicle) These are the passages through where the testicles normally descend during or right after birth, and the passage through where the intestine comes out of the body and inside the sac when there is a hernia. Because these passages are made of muscles, anything that produces pain (even if one is able to somewhat tolerate it) makes them contract, squeezing the nerves, hence the pain that one feels inside the body when somebody or something hits your balls.
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