monorchis

English

Noun

monorchis (plural monorchides)

1. A person with only one testicle.
   • 1828, Joshua Brookes, Brookesian Museum:

     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.

   • 1843, Thomas Blizard Curling, Paul Beck Goddard, A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Testis, page 103:

     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 […]

   • 1873, Alfred Swaine Taylor, The Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence:

     Monorchides, as they are called, have been known to be prolific.

   • 1878, Francis Ogston, Lectures on medical jurisprudence, page 180:

     Monorchides, or persons possessing only one testicle, are now excluded even from the doubtful causes of impotence […]

   • 1901, Victor G. Vecki, The Pathology and Treatment of Sexual Impotence:

     I myself knew a civil official in Europe, a monorchis with large penis, who was very vigorous in sexualibus until advanced age, and late in life begat two boys, the younger of whom is also a monorchis. […] In many places the popular belief accredits such monorchids with possessing extraordinary power.