"monorchis" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: monorchides [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|monorchides}} monorchis (plural monorchides)
  1. A person with only one testicle.
    Sense id: en-monorchis-en-noun-VDNLCFmb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "A preparation from a monorchis, or the testis (from a boy of ten years of age), not yet descended from the cavity of the abdomen into the scrotum.",
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          "ref": "1843, Thomas Blizard Curling, Paul Beck Goddard, A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Testis, page 103:",
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          "ref": "1873, Alfred Swaine Taylor, The Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence:",
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          "ref": "1878, Francis Ogston, Lectures on medical jurisprudence, page 180:",
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          "ref": "1901, Victor G. Vecki, The Pathology and Treatment of Sexual Impotence:",
          "text": "I myself knew a civil official in Europe, a monorchis with large penis, who was very vigorous in sexualibus until advanced age, and late in life begat two boys, the younger of whom is also a monorchis. […] In many places the popular belief accredits such monorchids with possessing extraordinary power.",
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