Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Absence of testes.

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  • noun anorchia

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  • noun absence of one of both testes

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Examples

  • The retained testis is probably functionally useless; so that a man in whom both testes are retained (anorchism) is sterile, though he may not be impotent.

    XI. Splanchnology. 3c. The Male Genital Organs 1918

  • Complete absence of the testicles, or anorchism, is a comparatively rare anomaly, and it is very difficult to distinguish between anorchism and arrest of development, or simple atrophy, which is much more common.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Complete absence of the testicles, or anorchism, is a comparatively rare anomaly, and it is very difficult to distinguish between anorchism and arrest of development, or simple atrophy, which is much more common.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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