Definition of "hypospadias" [‖Hy•po•spa•di•as]

• A birth defect of the male urethra that involves an abnormally placed urinary meatus. (noun)

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• "Researchers looked at 471 baby boys born with a malformation called hypospadias, where the opening of the penis appears on the underside, rather than the tip."
• "The latter has its origin in a stricture, or in an injury, or in that condition technically known as hypospadias, or in debility."
• "Nature may have slighted him with a genetically inherited malformation of the genitals called hypospadias, in which the urethra terminates just below the tip of the penis."