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An effay on the rupture called Hydrocele; explaining the anatomy of the pans affedied, with objeftions to the incifion, feton, &c.
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Hydrocele is not unfrequent, but hardly so general as in the Eastern Island; one manner of white man, a half caste from Macáo, was suffering with serpigo, and boasted of it.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Hydrocele is a condition in which there is an abnormal quantity of fluid in the tunica vaginalis.
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Hydrocele is a condition in which there is an abnormal quantity of fluid in the tunica vaginalis.
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I was cured in a short time, after having the Hydrocele for eighteen years.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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Hydrocele, or dropsy of scrotum, symptoms and treatment, 166
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Hydrocele is not unfrequent, but hardly so general as in the Eastern Island; one manner of white man, a half caste from Macáo, was suffering with serpigo, and boasted of it.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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When seated in the cavity of the chest, it is called Hydrothorax; when in that of the belly, Ascites; when seated in the scrotum or bag of the privates, it is called Hydrocele; and when the water collects in the cellular membrane, which is situated between the flesh and skin, it is called Hydrocele.
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The Hydrocele is known by a tumor of the scrotum, which is without pain, gradually produced, with fluctuation, and a degree of pellucidity, when a candle is held behind it; it is the most simple incysted dropsy, as it is not in general complicated with other diseases, as ascites with schirrous liver, and hydrocephalus internus, with general debility.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Hydrocele, an accumulation of fluid in the scrotum that causes it to swell, is one of the chronic manifestations of filariasis among men, and there are 26.8 million cases of hydrocele worldwide.
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