monorchis
English
editNoun
editmonorchis (plural monorchides)
- 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.