Definition of Hypospadias

1. Noun. An abnormal condition in males in which the urethra opens on the under surface of the penis.

Generic synonyms: Abnormalcy, Abnormality

Definition of Hypospadias

1. n. A deformity of the penis, in which the urethra opens upon its under surface.

Definition of Hypospadias

1. Noun. (medicine) A birth defect of the male urethra that involves an abnormally placed urinary meatus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hypospadias

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Medical Definition of Hypospadias

1. A congenital defect in which the urethra opens on the ventral (bottom) surface of the penis rather than on the glans. (11 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypospadias

hyposensitized
hyposensitizes
hyposensitizing
hyposkeletal
hyposkeocytosis
hyposmia
hyposmias
hyposmic
hyposmolality
hyposmosis
hyposmotic
hyposomatotropism
hyposomia
hyposomniac
hypospadiac
hypospadiases
hyposphagma
hyposphresia
hyposphyxia
hypospray
hyposprays
hypostases
hypostasis
hypostasize
hypostasized
hypostasizes

Literary usage of Hypospadias

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, Henry Larned Keith Shaw, Linnæus Edford La Fétra, Luther Emmett Holt (1912)
"Glandular hypospadias represents an arrest of development at the third ... Penile and perineal hypospadias correspond to disturbances at an earlier stage. ..."

2. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1912)
"hypospadias Pathological Anatomy.—hypospadias is much more frequently met with than ... hypospadias of the penis (Fig. 27). c. hypospadias of the glans. ..."

3. The Surgical Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs Including Syphilis by Edward Lawrence Keyes (1889)
"pus spongiosum in a case of hypospadias. The embryo at two month? has hypospadias normally. The scrotum has not yet united, and, if natural evolution ceases ..."

4. A Practical treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood by Thomas Hawkes Tanner, Alfred Meadows (1879)
"hypospadias. Treatment.—In congenital hernia, where we are sure that the testicle has ... There are two other varieties of hypospadias, more common, ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"A New Operation for Penile hypospadias.—RTH BUCKNALL (Lancet, 1907, ii, 887) describes a new operation for the relief of penile hypospadias, ..."

6. Gynæcology for Students & Practitioners by Thomas Watts Eden (1920)
"hypospadias in the male is more common, and when complete the subject may be mistaken ... According to Ballantyne, hypospadias in woman is the result of a ..."

7. Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs and the Kidney by Robert Holmes Greene, Harlow Brooks (1912)
"Beck's operation for hypospadias. The urethra freed. designed for the purpose. ... hypospadias hypospadias, or fissure of the inferior urethra, ..."

8. Manual of operative surgery by John Fairbairn Binnie (1921)
"CHAPTER LIII hypospadias In hypospadias, owing to an error in development, ... In any form of hypospadias except the mildest the defective penis is curved ..."

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