Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Retention of the testicles in the cavity of the abdomen, owing to the failure of the organs to descend from their primitive position into the scrotum. Also cryptorchidism, cryptorchismus.
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- noun failure of one or both testes to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops
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Examples
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The testis, developed in the lumbar region, may be arrested or delayed in its transit to the scrotum (cryptorchism).
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Many instances of rudimentary development of the penis have been recorded, most of them complicated with cryptorchism or other abnormality of the sexual organs.
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Many instances of rudimentary development of the penis have been recorded, most of them complicated with cryptorchism or other abnormality of the sexual organs.
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The illusion was greater, as in this remarkable case gynecomastism was associated with cryptorchism -- that is to say, the testicles had kept to their original place in the visceral cavity, and had not travelled in the normal way down into the scrotum.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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