Hypospadias

//ˌhʌɪ.pəʊˈspeɪ.di.əs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A congenital condition in males in which the opening of the urethra is on the underside of the penis. countable, uncountable

    "This condition, hypospadias, may be examined ad stuporem in the hundreds of photographs of Hugh Hampton Young's pioneering text, Genital Abnormalities, Hermaphroditism, and Related Adrenal Diseases (1937)."

  2. 2
    an abnormal condition in males in which the urethra opens on the under surface of the penis wordnet

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"This condition, hypospadias, may be examined ad stuporem in the hundreds of photographs of Hugh Hampton Young's pioneering text, Genital Abnormalities, Hermaphroditism, and Related Adrenal Diseases (1937)."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὑποσπαδίᾱς (hupospadíās, “one who has the orifice of the urethra too low”).

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