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The present study was aimed to find out the pattern, total length and inner surface area of human epididymis. <\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Materials and Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p> The study was conducted by employing microsurgical procedures on five testes from unclaimed human dead bodies. <\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p> Caput was formed by few tubes interconnecting at three levels. These tubes led to corpus, which in turn was having more number of tubes interconnecting at different levels. Tubules were many looking like a mesh. United tubes of corpus form the single tube to form cauda. Epididymis length was 30.48 cm. Inner surface area was 818.16 mm<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>. <\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p> Reported values of others seem to be a modified version from that of animals. 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