Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Inflammation of one or both of the testes, often occurring as a result of mumps or other infection, trauma, or metastasis.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In pathology, inflammation of the testis. Also orchiditis.
Wiktionary
- n. A painful inflammation of one or both testes
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Inflammation of the testicles.
WordNet 3.0
- n. inflammation of one or both testes; characterized by pain and swelling
Etymologies
- Greek orkhis, testicle + -itis.
Examples
“Swollen testicles, a complication called orchitis, can lead to sterility, but much more rarely than once was believed.”
“Rohleder believes that the bad results of sexual abstinence are never permanent, and also that no anatomically pathological states (such as orchitis) can be thereby produced.”
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
“The parotid on one or both sides may suddenly become swollen and tender in patients who are taking large doses of mercury, in gouty subjects, or in patients suffering from infective conditions of the genito-urinary organs, such as orchitis, ovaritis, urethritis, or cystitis.”
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
“Mumps can also infect testicles and cause a disease known as orchitis.”
“Some men with orchitis were found to be sterile after the infection resolved.”
“I'm just trying to figure out how this would play before everybody got orchitis.”
“Dried, powdered bark is used against leprosy, orchitis, rheumatism, dermatosis and fever and to heal wounds, while the leaves are used to treat head, eye, ear and tooth troubles, or as a bath for the treatment of migraine and vertigo.”
“Because when Nick was fourteen, he caught mumps, complicated by orchitis.”
“There were random cases of foul foot, inverted eyelid and scurfy ear, and one of the bulls was so afflicted with orchitis that he walked with a straddling gait, lest his geranium red testicles sound a painful gong against his thighs.”
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
“In boys, orchitis, or inflammation of the testicles, occasionally occur.”
Lists
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It's not orchitis, A said, perhaps remembering Mr. Flower."
The House of Ulysses by Julián Ríos, translated by Nick Caistor, p 168
Dec 26, 2010
chained_bear "'Hoot,' said Graham, grinning still. 'Does the swelling affect the vocal cords?'
"'The back of my hand to the vocal cords,' said Stephen. 'Have you not heard of orchitis? Of the swelling of the cods that may follow mumps?'
"'Not I,' said Graham, his smile fading.
"'Nor had my messmates,' said Stephen, 'though the Dear knows it is one of the not unusual sequelae of cynanche parotidaea, and one of real consequence to men....'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 228 Feb 14, 2008