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Definition of Orchitis

1. Noun. Inflammation of one or both testes; characterized by pain and swelling.

Definition of Orchitis

1. n. Inflammation of the testicles.

Definition of Orchitis

1. Noun. (medicine) A painful inflammation of one or both testes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Orchitis

1. inflammation of the testicle [n -TISES] : ORCHITIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Orchitis

1. Inflammation of a testis. The disease is marked by pain, swelling and a feeling of weight. It may occur idiopathically or it may be associated with conditions such as mumps, gonorrhoea, filarial disease, syphilis or tuberculosis. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Orchitis

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"[orchitis appears to be an exceedingly rare event in typhoid fever. The first instance in between 800 and 900 cases at the Johns Hopkins Hospital occurred ..."

2. Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1903)
"Filarial orchitis. •— Several French writers describe under the name " malarial ... I have many times seen filaria 1 orchitis, but I cannot say I have seen ..."

3. A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery, and Their Allied Sciences, for by New Sydenham Society (1873)
"He alludes to gonorrhœa as causing epididymitis, and then asks, " What is the connexion between prostatic irritation and orchitis ?" He thinks it duo to the ..."

4. The Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Diseases: Including the Results of by Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1864)
"SYPHILITIC orchitis. A DISEASE of the testicle, dependent upon syphilis, ... In most cases, syphilitic orchitis attacks both testicles either at the same ..."

5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1893)
"Such orchitis is very rare iti young children ; the widest observers (Rilliet, Henoch, Barthez. and ..."

6. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1901)
"orchitis AND EPIDIDYMITIS IN TYPHOID FEVER. BY FRANCIS P. KINNICUTT. MD, Or NEW YORK. THE especial intention in the present paper is to record the clinical ..."

7. A Practical Treatise on the Medical & Surgical Uses of Electricity by George Miller Beard, Alphonso David Rockwell (1871)
"The great advantage which the authors claim for this method of treatment in orchitis is, that the patient is not obliged to suspend his daily duties, ..."

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