单词 | cryptorchidism |
释义 | cryptorchidismn. Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. Failure of descent of one or (more commonly) both testes from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum; the condition of having such a testis or testes. ΚΠ 1846 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 21 32 Take, for example, the following description of cryptorchidismus, or non-descent of the testicle.] 1857 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 19 182 A valuable Monograph has also reached us from France, by M. Godard, ‘On Monorchidism and Cryptorchidism’. 1881 Hahnemannian Monthly July 444 As to the etiology of cryptorchidism, there is strong evidence in favor of the anomaly being hereditary, the progeny of certain ‘rig’ stallions being affected with it. 1948 L. C. Martin & M. Hynes Clin. Endocrinol. viii. 159 In cryptorchidism the testes remain in the abdomen, in maldescent they lie in the inguinal canals or unduly high in the scrotum. 1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 Dec. 6/2 He looks like portraits of Nicholas II, is a hemophiliac, and suffers from cryptorchidism, as did the royal heir. 2002 J. Eugenides Middlesex iv. 494 I learned what varieties we hermaphrodites came in. I read about hyperadrenocorticism and feminizing testes and something called cryptorchidism, which applied to me. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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