Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fleshy tumor of the testis, as a carcinoma or sarcoma.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Any solid tumor of the testicle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine Any
solid tumour of thetesticle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The complaint was a sarcocele, which Johnson bore with uncommon firmness, and was not at all frightened while he looked forward to amputation.
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Yet I did not see a single case of true lepra Arabum, or its modifications, the huge Barbadoes leg (elephantiasis), and the sarcoma scrotale and sarcocele of Zanzibar and East Africa.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Larrey speaks of a sarcocele in the coverings of the testicle which weighed 100 pounds.
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The complaint was a sarcocele, which Johnson bore with uncommon firmness, and was not at all frightened while he looked forward to amputation.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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A varicose state of the veins of the scrotum or spermatic cord (when large), sarcocele, hydroccle, hemorrhoids, fistulas.
Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point Flipper, Henry O 1878
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To this was added, a sarcocele, which, as it threatened to render excision necessary, caused him more uneasiness, though he looked forward to the operation with sufficient courage; but the complaint subsided of itself.
Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846
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The complaint was a sarcocele, which Johnson bore with uncommon firmness, and was not at all frightened while he looked forward to amputation.
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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(elephantiasis), and the sarcoma scrotale and sarcocele of
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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13.110 Larrey speaks of a sarcocele in the coverings of the testicle which weighed 100 pounds.
ruzuzu commented on the word sarcocele
Oh, man. I was just reading Samuel Johnson's definition for this "fleshy excrescence" in A Dictionary of the English Language when I thought I'd come over here and see if the Century Dictionary had anything exciting to say about it.
Then I saw this in the examples: “The complaint was a sarcocele, which Johnson bore with uncommon firmness, and was not at all frightened while he looked forward to amputation.” --Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood
September 1, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word sarcocele
'Zuzu! Connecting Johnson's definition of sarcocele and Boswell's writing about Johnson and his sarcocele is an awe-inspiring piece of sleuthing and dot connecting. Thanks!
September 1, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word sarcocele
Thanks, hh. I happened across it because I was looking up Johnson's definition of salmon. (It has a great citation from The Compleat Angler--have you ever read it?)
September 1, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word sarcocele
By the way, here's Johnson's definition: "A fleshy excrescence of the testicles, which sometimes grow so large as to stretch the scrotum much beyond its natural size."
September 16, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word sarcocele
I read The Compleat Angler when in school, and haven't picked it up since. Johnson's definition is TMI about himself, no?
September 16, 2011
bilby commented on the word sarcocele
please
refrain
from
excrescing
your
testicles
fleshily
September 16, 2011
sionnach commented on the word sarcocele
It all begs the question "Why should elephantiasis be referred to as Barbadoes leg"?
singed,
A concerned Barbadoan.
September 16, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word sarcocele
Which then raises this question: How much do singing Barbadoans know about the fallacy called petitio principii?
September 16, 2011
yarb commented on the word sarcocele
This is worse than it sounds. I would have thought a sarcocele to be some quaint Provençal country dance.
September 16, 2011
sionnach commented on the word sarcocele
I don't know which is more impressive -- the fact that yarb takes enough care to get that ç right in "Provençal", or ruzuzu's casual introduction of petitio principii into the discussion...
September 16, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word sarcocele
Samuel Johnson: lexicographer, and now, the world's first sarcocelebrity.
September 16, 2011
yarb commented on the word sarcocele
I don't see what the Little Prince has to do with Johnson's ballsack.
September 16, 2011
sionnach commented on the word sarcocele
I think the current President of the Republic here in France might lay claim to the title of sarcocelebrity as well. Just sayin'
September 16, 2011
bilby commented on the word sarcocele
"Meanwhile Dominic Strauss Kahn's notorious problem was that he was a complete dick, which he bore with uncommon firmness..."
Can we look forward to amputation?
September 17, 2011