cryptorchisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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cryptorchis (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 cryptorchides)

1. (countable) Synonym of cryptorchid
   • 1859, (Please provide the book title または journal name), page 361:

     The absence of the tunica vaginalis in monorchides and cryptorchides, except when the dislocation is owing to retraction, and the bearing of this fact upon the anatomy of hernia […]

   • 1873, Alfred Vogel, A Practical treatise on the diseases of children:

     These persons are called monorchides, testicondi, cryptorchides. […] If an opportunity occurs to make an autopsy upon a cryptorchis, the retained testis will not be found in its original anatomical place […]

   • 1899, Dr. Jacobus X, The Ethnology of the Sixth Sense: Studies and Researches, page 16:

     As a general thesis the individuals whose testicles are not present in the purses are Cryptorchides, that is to say men whose testicles have remained enclosed in the abdomen.