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testicular, a.|tɛˈstɪkjʊlə(r)|
[f. L. testiculus testicle: see -ar1; cf. F. testiculaire.]
1. a. Of or pertaining to, containing, or having the nature or function of a testicle or testicles.
1656Blount Glossogr., Testicular,..belonging to the stones of man or beast. 1775in Ash. 1841–71T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 255 The fifth segment [of the earthworm], from behind, is again testicular,..so that the first and the last segments in this region are testicular, the three intermediate ones being ovarian. 1899J. Cagney tr. Jaksch's Clin. Diagn. ix, The spermatic or testicular secretion.
b. testicular feminization (or testicular feminizing): a familial condition produced in genetically male persons by the failure of tissue to respond to male sex hormones, resulting in a normal female appearance (including external genitalia) but with testes in place of ovaries; usu. attrib.
1953J. M. Morris in Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. LXV. 1192 Actually these patients present a fairly typical clinical picture. For this reason they have been singled out from the other forms of intersexuality, and we have called the clinical syndrome ‘testicular feminization’. 1959,1970[see feminization 2]. 1974Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xxix. 2/2 One other specific condition is the testicular feminizing syndrome in which XY individuals with testes nevertheless develop female external genitalia and female secondary development at puberty. 1978Price's Textbk. Practice of Med. (ed. 12) v. 550/2 In the testicular feminization syndrome a different approach is indicated because..‘she’ may already be married and having satisfactory sexual intercourse.
2. Resembling a testicle in form; testiculate.
1769E. Bancroft Guiana 73 Berries of a reddish yellow colour, and testicular form. 1821W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. I. 53 The genus orchis..derives its name from the testicular shape of the roots in many species. |