testicular

[ te-stik-yuh-ler ]

adjective

1. of or relating to the testes.
2. testiculate.

Word History and Origins

Origin of testicular¹

1650–60; < Latin testicul ( us ) testicle + -ar ¹

Example Sentences

At 29, however, when Sidrauski was just two months old, her father died suddenly of testicular cancer.

From MIT Technology Review

She was part of one of the first Harvard Law School classes to admit women, had nursed her husband Martin through testicular cancer and had given birth to a daughter, Jane.

From Ozy

Must both ovarian and testicular tissue be present for a person to be “counted”?

From The Daily Beast

I referred to his heroic battle to overcome testicular cancer.

From The Daily Beast

Reluctantly, he went, and it was a good thing because it turned out he had testicular cancer.

From The Daily Beast

In 1996 Armstrong was diagnosed with testicular cancer and admitted to the University of Indiana Hospital.

From The Daily Beast

After a 10-year remission from testicular cancer, Radziwill found out he was ill again.

From The Daily Beast

Gonorrhea also causes inflammation of the joints, gonorrheal rheumatism, testicular inflammations which may lead to sterility.

From Project Gutenberg

The seminal vesicles are not receptacles for the testicular secretion.

From Project Gutenberg

The essential reproductive organ or gonad consists of both ovarian and testicular cells (see fig. 42).

From Project Gutenberg

Stocker reported two successful implantations of ovarian grafts and one testicular graft.

From Project Gutenberg

There were 13 conscripts having a testicular diameter of less than 14 millimeters.

From Project Gutenberg