orchiticadj.
/ɔːˈkɪtɪk/, U.S. /ɔrˈkɪdɪk/ Biology and Medicine.
1. †Having testicles (obsolete); of or relating to the testicles. Now rare or historical.
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1847 A. Tulk tr. L. Oken Elements Physiophilos. 519 These animals divide..according to the sexual parts, into Ovarial, Orchitic [Ger. Milchenthiere], and Renal animals.
1860 J. E. Erichsen Sci. & Art Surg. (new ed.) 970 The alteration and condensation of the orchitic structure.
1932 E. Allen Sex & Internal Secretions 857 Three groups of castrates into which the orchitic extracts were injected.
1995 Sci. Amer. Feb. 61/3 Zoth's 1896 paper concluded that the ‘orchitic’ extract had improved both muscular strength and the condition of the ‘neuromuscular apparatus’.
2. Of or relating to orchitis; affected by orchitis.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > reproductive organ disorders > [adjective] > of male > disorders of testicles
orchitic1857
undescended1897
maldescended1908
retractile1937
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Orchiticus, of or belonging to orchitis: orchitic.
1982 Brit. Jrnl. Venereal Dis. 58 139 These results suggest that T[reponema] pallidum is sensitive to oxygen toxicity both during initial extraction from orchitic rabbit testes and subsequent incubation in vitro.
1989 Andrologia 21 384 All subjects, except post-parotitis orchitic patients, exhibited significantly higher sperm chromatin heterogeneity than controls.
1991 Autoimmunity 10 89 Immunohistochemical characterization of immune cells in the fully-developed orchitic lesion was carried out using monoclonal antibodies and immunoperoxidase staining.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1847