cryptorchis

English

Noun

cryptorchis (countable and uncountable, plural cryptorchides)

1. (countable) Synonym of cryptorchid
   • 1859, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 361:

     The absence of the tunica vaginalis in monorchides and cryptorchides, except when the dislocation is owing to retraction, and the bearing of this fact upon the anatomy of hernia […]

   • 1873, Alfred Vogel, A Practical treatise on the diseases of children:

     These persons are called monorchides, testicondi, cryptorchides. […] If an opportunity occurs to make an autopsy upon a cryptorchis, the retained testis will not be found in its original anatomical place […]

   • 1899, Dr. Jacobus X, The Ethnology of the Sixth Sense: Studies and Researches, page 16:

     As a general thesis the individuals whose testicles are not present in the purses are Cryptorchides, that is to say men whose testicles have remained enclosed in the abdomen.

2. (uncountable) Synonym of cryptorchidism