Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A deformity of the penis, in which the urethra opens upon its under surface.
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- noun medicine A
birth defect of themale urethra that involves an abnormally placedurinary meatus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an abnormal condition in males in which the urethra opens on the under surface of the penis
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Examples
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Researchers looked at 471 baby boys born with a malformation called hypospadias, where the opening of the penis appears on the underside, rather than the tip.
- The Consumerist 2009
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Researchers looked at 471 baby boys born with a malformation called hypospadias, where the opening of the penis appears on the underside, rather than the tip.
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Researchers looked at 471 baby boys born with a malformation called hypospadias, where the opening of the penis appears on the underside, rather than the tip.
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Researchers looked at 471 baby boys born with a malformation called hypospadias, where the opening of the penis appears on the underside, rather than the tip.
Repellents and insecticides linked to birth defects in baby boys 2009
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Researchers looked at 471 baby boys born with a malformation called hypospadias, where the opening of the penis appears on the underside, rather than the tip.
Repellents and insecticides linked to birth defects in baby boys 2009
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The latter has its origin in a stricture, or in an injury, or in that condition technically known as hypospadias, or in debility.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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The latter has its origin in a stricture, or in an injury, or in that condition technically known as hypospadias, or in debility.
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Nature may have slighted him with a genetically inherited malformation of the genitals called hypospadias, in which the urethra terminates just below the tip of the penis.
Portrait of a Killer Cornwell, Patricia 1930
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This is known as hypospadias, and the cleft may vary in extent.
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In recent years there has actually been an increase in the number of babies born with a problem that causes a defect in the heart walls, and those with another birth defect called hypospadias, in which the urethra opens on the undersurface of the penis.
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Devore was born in 1958 with hypospadias, a condition in which the urinary opening is on the underside of the penis instead of the tip.
Raising an intersex child: 'This is your body. ... There's nothing to be ashamed of' Daniella Emanuel 2019
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