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Indonesian
Etymology
Affixed hipo- + *spadia, from English hypospadias, from Ancient Greek ὑποσπαδίᾱς (hupospadíās, “one who has the orifice of the urethra too low”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hipoˈspadia̯/
- Hyphenation: hi‧po‧spa‧dia
Noun
hipospadia (first-person possessive hipospadiaku, second-person possessive hipospadiamu, third-person possessive hipospadianya)
- (pathology) hypospadias: a congenital condition in males in which the opening of the urethra is on the underside of the penis.
Further reading
Spanish
Noun
hipospadia f (plural hipospadias)
- Alternative form of hipospadias
2015 October 8, “¿Una erección natural de 4 horas? No es una leyenda urbana”, in El País:En el caso de las hipospadias y las epispadias, un tipo de anomalías congénitas (de nacimiento), que suceden porque la apertura de la uretra no se encuentra en la punta del pene, como es habitual.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)