Maldescent

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The incomplete descent of the testicles. uncountable

    "With the male infant it is, no doubt, attributable either to a maldescent of the testes, to phymosis, or to a partial atresia of the urethra."

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"With the male infant it is, no doubt, attributable either to a maldescent of the testes, to phymosis, or to a partial atresia of the urethra."

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From mal- + descent.

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