Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Abnormal opening of the urethra upon the dorsum of the penis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A deformity in which the urethra opens upon the top of the penis, instead of at its extremity.
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- noun medicine A
deformity in which theurethra opens upon the top of thepenis , instead of at itsextremity .
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- noun a congenital abnormality in males in which the urethra is on the upper surface of the penis
Etymologies
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Modified bladder neck reconstruction in patients with incontinence after staged exstrophy/epispadias closures.
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These include repairs for bladder exstrophy, cloacal exstrophy, spina bifida, hypospadias and epispadias.
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Position of the penis opening hypospadias and epispadias
Conception Kit: Lock Sperm and Egg in a Room and Throw Away the Key | Thingamababy 2007
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Fig. 14, Plate 57, exhibits the form of a congenital epispadias, in which the urethra is seen to open on the dorsal surface of the prepuce at the median line.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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Even worse is epispadias, which occurs when the urethra is divided and runs like a "shallow gutter" along the back of a rudimentary or incompletely developed penis.
Portrait of a Killer Cornwell, Patricia 1930
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The penis, except the glans, is rudimentary and is cleft on its dorsal surface, exposing the floor of the urethra, a condition known as epispadias.
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A much more uncommon form of malformation is where there is an apparent deficiency of the upper wall of the urethra; this is named epispadias.
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Gay 6.432 describes a child with epispadias whose penis had undergone such torsion on its axis that its inferior surface looked upward to the left, and the child passed urine toward the left shoulder.
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Caddy 6.434 mentions a youth of eighteen who had congenital torsion of the penis with out hypospadias or epispadias.
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The absence of the clitoris coincides with epispadias in the male, and in atrophy of the vulva it is common to find the clitoris rudimentary; but a more frequent anomaly is hypertrophy of the clitoris.
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