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monorchis

monorchis noun: a person with only one testicle.

Noun

monorchis (plural monorchides)

  1. A person with only one testicle.
    • 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.1828, Joshua Brookes, Brookesian Museum
    • Palletta examined the body of a man aged about fifty, who was supposed to be a monorchis. The spermatic vessels on the left side, as they approached the pelvis, gradually disappeared, a white transparent process alone remaining […]1843, Thomas Blizard Curling, Paul Beck Goddard, A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Testis, page 103

Forms of monorchis

pluralmonorchides

Questions about monorchis

What does monorchis mean?
Monorchis means a person with only one testicle.
What part of speech is monorchis?
Monorchis is a noun.
What is the plural of monorchis?
The plural of monorchis is monorchides.

Words near monorchis in the dictionary

  1. monorchidic
  2. monorchidism
  3. monorchids
  4. monorchiid
  5. monorchiids
  6. monorchis
  7. monorchism
  8. monorden
  9. monoreactive
  10. monoreagent
  11. monoreagents

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