Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In pathology, inflammation of the epididymis.

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  • noun (Med.) Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.

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  • noun pathology inflammation of the epididymis

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  • noun painful inflammation of the epididymis

Etymologies

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epididymis +‎ -itis (“inflammation”)

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Examples

  • If they continue traveling to the epididymis the small gland located on top of each testicle, an infection called epididymitis results.

    Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000

  • In the best case scenario it is epididymitis, which is an infection in the epididymis of the testicle.

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2010

  • I went to the doctor and he said it is "epididymitis".

    Find Me A Cure 2010

  • Prolonged exposure to the disease may arise to various health problems such as epididymitis in men, and Pelvic

    EzineArticles 2010

  • A surgeon friend suggested epididymitis, an inflammation of the spermatic duct.

    After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010

  • In men it can cause urethritis with possible infection of the ductus deferens and the testicles (epididymitis).

    Chapter 2 1996

  • If it does contain a normal number of lively, rapidly moving spermatozoa, the man is fertile, regardless of whether he ever had epididymitis or not.

    Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

  • (A salpingitis has the same effect in causing sterility in the female as has an epididymitis in the male.)

    Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

  • Although in children the course of the disease exhibits many peculiarities, the general results are much the same as in adults, viz., pain, orchitis and epididymitis with atrophy, cystitis, &c.; and in girls, more especially peritonitis.

    The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900

  • The pounded bark is applied locally in orchitis and epididymitis.

    The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

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