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Definition of "cryptorchism" [cryptorchism]

  • A developmental defect marked by the failure of the testes to descend into the scrotum. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "cryptorchism" in a sentence
  • "—The testis, developed in the lumbar region, may be arrested or delayed in its transit to the scrotum (cryptorchism)."
  • "Many instances of rudimentary development of the penis have been recorded, most of them complicated with cryptorchism or other abnormality of the sexual organs."
  • "The illusion was greater, as in this remarkable case gynecomastism was associated with cryptorchism -- that is to say, the testicles had kept to their original place in the visceral cavity, and had not travelled in the normal way down into the scrotum."