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Definition of Epispadias
1. Noun. A congenital abnormality in males in which the urethra is on the upper surface of the penis.
Definition of Epispadias
1. n. A deformity in which the urethra opens upon the top of the penis, instead of at its extremity.
Definition of Epispadias
1. Noun. (medicine) A deformity in which the urethra opens upon the top of the penis, instead of at its extremity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Epispadias
1. A congenital defect resulting in the urethral opening on the dorsum of the penis. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epispadias
Literary usage of Epispadias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1912)
"epispadias is a fissure of the lowest part of the bladder or of the urethra,
caused by premature ... 2. epispadias of the penis. 3. epispadias of the glans. ..."
2. Gynæcology for students & practitioners by Thomas Watts Eden (1920)
"HYPOSPADIAS : epispadias Hypospadias. This anomaly is produced by a ... epispadias.
epispadias is a defect of the anterior wall or roof of the urethra. ..."
3. Manual of operative surgery by John Fairbairn Binnie (1921)
"CHAPTER LII epispadias epispadias is closely allied to hypospadias, ... In epispadias
the incomplete but usually redundant prepuce hangs below the glans. ..."
4. A Text-book of the Diseases of Women by Henry Jacques Garrigues (1897)
"epispadias (Fig. 200) is the name for the condition characterized by a ...
epispadias, like hypospadias, has been cured by different plastic J operations. ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1842)
"Practical observations on those Malformations of the Male Urethra and Penis,
termed Hypospadias and epispadias, with an Anomalous Case. By JOHN P. METTAUER, ..."
6. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1869)
"(See British Medical Journal, February 13.) The Operations for Extroversion of
the Bladder and epispadias.—In a paper read before the ..."
7. The Science and art of surgery: Being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries by Sir John Eric Erichsen (1864)
"epispadias.—The upper surfaco of the penis is less frequently fissured ; ly, I
believe, in cases of extroversion of the bladder. ..."
8. A Manual of Operative Surgery by Lewis Atterbury Stimson (1878)
"epispadias. The deformity known as epispadias is characterized by fissure of the
roof of the urethra. In its complete form it is associated with separation ..."
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