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  • noun Plural form of hydrocele.

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Examples

  • This enables him to differentiate solid tumors from fluid-filled cysts or sacs of water around the testicle, called hydroceles.

    A Baby at Last! Mark L. Fuerst 2010

  • We care for children with anomalies of the external genitalia such as hydroceles (swellings in the scrotum), undescended testes and other scrotal problems in boys; we treat disorders of sexual differentiation and are specialists in pediatric gynecology.

    Urology 2010

  • All of the patients were there because they suffered from hernias or similar problems such as hydroceles, needing circumcisions, and cysts, and most patients were males.

    WOW 2009

  • Leigh * [483] mentions a hydrocele weighing 120 pounds, and there are records of hydroceles weighing 40 13.109 and 60 pounds.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Leigh mentions a hydrocele weighing 120 pounds, and there are records of hydroceles weighing 40 and 60 pounds.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Of the sons whose mothers had measurable PBB levels at the time of conception, 35 reported GU conditions, including hernias (13), hydroceles (10), undescended testicles (9), hypospadias (5), phimosis (2) and varicocele (1).

    Maternal Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants Linked to Urologic Conditions in Boys GreenFertility 2008

  • The French are peculiarly troubled with fevers, with worms, and with hydroceles and fareoceles; and all thefe difordcrs fcem to be owkig originally to their eat - ing very large quantities of chefnuts.

    Encyclopædia britannica; 1797

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