What does monorchis mean?
Monorchis means A person with only one testicle..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A person with only one testicle..
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.
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 […]
Monorchides, as they are called, have been known to be prolific.
Monorchides, or persons possessing only one testicle, are now excluded even from the doubtful causes of 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.
The same practices are recorded in the case of Tamerlane, the Asiatic conqueror, who was also a monorchis.
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Monorchis means A person with only one testicle..
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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.
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