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hydrocoel

hydrocoel is the alternative form of hydrocele.

Meaning of hydrocele

Noun

hydrocele (plural hydroceles)

  1. An abnormal build-up of fluids at a site in the body, especially in the membranes around a testicle.
    • For while he refers to his gout (a good disease), he does not mention the complaint which indirectly killed him, his hydrocele – an enlargement of the scrotum.2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 205

Forms of hydrocoel

pluralhydrocoels

Questions about hydrocoel

What is hydrocoel the alternative form of?
Hydrocoel is the alternative form of hydrocele.

Words near hydrocoel in the dictionary

  1. hydroclusters
  2. hydrocode
  3. hydrocodes
  4. hydrocodone
  5. hydrocodones
  6. hydrocoel
  7. hydrocoele
  8. hydrocoelectomies
  9. hydrocoelectomy
  10. hydrocoeles
  11. hydrocoels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hydrocoel (page history and authors); hydrocele (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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