Definition of Hydroceles

1. Noun. (plural of hydrocele) ¹

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Definition of Hydroceles

1. hydrocele [n] - See also: hydrocele

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydroceles

hydrocarbylidene
hydrocarbylidenes
hydrocarbylidyne
hydrocarbylidynes
hydrocarbyls
hydrocast
hydrocasts
hydrocauli
hydrocaulus
hydrocele colli
hydrocele feminae
hydrocele muliebris
hydrocelectomy
hydroceles (current term)
hydrocephalic
hydrocephalics
hydrocephalies
hydrocephalocele
hydrocephaloid
hydrocephalous
hydrocephalus ex vacuo
hydrocephaluses
hydrocephaly
hydrocerussite
hydrochemical
hydrochemistry
hydrochlorate

Literary usage of Hydroceles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence by Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé (1860)
"... rise to practical difficulty in legal relations. The same may be said of an excessive size of the penis. § 423. (5.) Obstruction from large hydroceles, ..."

2. Diseases of the Male Generative Organs by Edred Moss Corner (1907)
"Sometimes they are called vaginal hydroceles. ... I. ACUTE hydroceles hydroceles are termed acute when the fluid is effused rapidly into the cavity of the ..."

3. A Practical treatise on the disorders of the sexual organs of men by Bukk G. Carleton (1900)
"BILOCULAR AND MULTILOCULAR hydroceles. When bilocular, the cavities are ... Multilocular hydroceles are congenital or the result of inflammatory adhesion. ..."

4. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the testis, and of the spermatic by Thomas Blizard Curling (1856)
"I have detected them in the fluid from encysted hydroceles tapped for the first time, and also in the examination of small cysts connected with testicles ..."

5. Urology: Diseases of the Urinary Organs, Diseases of the Male Genital Organs by Edward Loughborough Keyes (1917)
"hydroceles with inflamed, indurated, or calcareous wilk d. ... Operations for Unusual hydroceles—In operating upon infantil* hydroceles, ..."

6. The Clinical Journal (1901)
"In some hydroceles a small pedunculated body is found near the head of the ... Large hydroceles have often a slight constriction about their centre, ..."

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