cryptorchidism

American  

[krip-tawr-ki-diz-uhm] / krɪpˈtɔr kɪˌdɪz əm /

Also cryptorchism

noun

Pathology.

1. failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum.

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Other Word Forms

• cryptorchid adjective

Etymology

Origin of cryptorchidism

1880–85; < New Latin cryptorchidismus, equivalent to crypt- crypto- + orchid- (< Greek orchid-; see orchid) + -ismus -ism

Example Sentences

As for “Hitler Has Only Got One Ball,” set to the popular World War I tune “Colonel Bogey’s March,” this song mocking Hitler’s rumored right-side cryptorchidism emerged out of the British military sometime in 1939.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2019

Medical records from his arrival in Landsberg state he suffered from unilateral cryptorchidism, an undescended right testicle.

From US News • Dec. 22, 2015

Beyond that, says Dr. Lawrence Einhorn of Indiana University, who treated Lance Armstrong, "we have looked at several risk factors, and the only one that's really been proved is cryptorchidism."

From Time Magazine Archive

I read about hyperadrenocorticism and feminizing testes and something called cryptorchidism, which applied to me.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

But there is the curious fact that when the descent is not normal and complete, in what is called cryptorchidism, the organs are always sterile.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.