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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὑποσπαδίᾱς (hupospadíās, “one who has the orifice of the urethra too low”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hypospadias (countable and uncountable, plural hypospadiases)
- (anatomy) A congenital condition in males in which the opening of the urethra is on the underside of the penis.
1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:This condition, hypospadias, may be examined ad stuporem in the hundreds of photographs of Hugh Hampton Young's pioneering text, Genital Abnormalities, Hermaphroditism, and Related Adrenal Diseases (1937).
2016 July 2, Jenny Kleeman, The Guardian:At the same time, they corrected Jack’s hypospadias, a condition that meant his urethra opened at the base of his penis, moving it further up so he could pee more like a boy.
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Translations
birth defect of the male urethra
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French
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὑποσπαδίᾱς (hupospadíās, “one who has the orifice of the urethra too low”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hypospadias m (plural hypospadias)
- hypospadias
1841, Bulletin de l'Académie royale de médecine de Belgique, page 870:Dans la cure des hypospadias péno-scrotaux, scrotaux et périnéaux, il convient donc de recourir à d’autres opérations.- In treating penoscrotal, scrotal and perineal hypospadias, one ought therefore to use other operations.
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