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单词 cryptorchid
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cryptorchidn.adj.

Brit. /krɪpˈtɔːkɪd/, U.S. /krɪpˈtɔrkəd/
Forms: 1800s cryptorchide, 1800s– cryptorchid.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from German. Or (iii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French cryptorchide; German Kryptorchid; Latin cryptorchides.
Etymology: < French cryptorchide (1852 or earlier) or its etymons German Kryptorchid (1802 or earlier) and scientific Latin cryptorchides, plural (1786 or earlier; < classical Latin crypto- crypto- comb. form + orchides , representing the plural of ancient Greek ὄρχις testicle: see discussion at orchideous adj.). Compare Hellenistic Greek κρύπτορχος with undescended testicles (recorded in an inscription), and also Hellenistic Greek κρυψόρχης with undescended testicles.Compare also post-classical Latin cryptorchis in an isolated attestation in N. Bailey Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2, 1736), glossed ‘a disease when the testicles are hid in the belly’.
Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.
A. n.
A person or animal with cryptorchidism. Cf. monorchid n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > reproductive organ disorders > [noun] > of male > disorders of testicles > person
cryptorchid1857
1857 Med. Times & Gaz. 8 Aug. 149/1 In the case where one testicle has descended, but has become diseased, the patient is in the same condition with the cryptorchide; but the monorchide may recover his powers when the diseased condition of the testicle is removed.
1865 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 36 543 In the application of this we have not the same difficulty as in cryptorchids.
1914 M. W. Harper Breeding of Farm Animals xxiii. 254 Cryptorchids are classed as sterile, although the animal assumes the characteristics of a normal male.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxv. 971 In the bilateral cryptorchid the spermatic tissue also atrophies.
1981 R. Davies Rebel Angels (1982) 321 Urky was Magdalen—quite another bed of cryptorchids.
1997 Your Horse Nov. 28/1 If your vet has examined him and cannot feel either the testicles or any scar tissue in the area then it is likely he is a cryptorchid.
B. adj.
Affected with cryptorchidism; of or relating to cryptorchidism. Cf. monorchid adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of genitalia
memberless1611
monorchid1822
hypospadiac1836
cryptorchid1860
hypospadial1874
eunuchoid1894
eunuchoidal1915
1860 New Orleans Med. News Oct. 585 He concludes by asking whether cryptorchid subjects should marry or not, when it is known they cannot procreate.
1884 Med. Rec. 26 Apr. 467/2 Heredity was observed in one [case], where a monorchid brought forth a cryptorchid child.
1920 Science 20 Aug. 181/2 The grafts resemble considerably a cryptorchid testis in that both retain the well-rounded seminiferous tubules.
1986 J. F. Gracey Meat Hygiene (ed. 8) ii. 65/2 In Britain the meat of boars, castrated boars and cryptorchid pigs (rigs) is of lower value than the flesh of sows because of the boar odour.
2006 European Jrnl. Med. Genetics 49 265 Since there is an increased incidence of tumourogenesis in Down syndrome cases the cryptorchid condition may result in an increased risk for testicular carcinogenesis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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