Meaning of monorchis | Babel Free

Definitions

A person with only one testicle.

Examples

“A preparation from a monorchis, or the testis (from a boy of ten years of age), not yet descended from the cavity of the abdomen into the scrotum.”

“Palletta examined the body of a man aged about fifty, who was supposed to be a monorchis. The spermatic vessels on the left side, as they approached the pelvis, gradually disappeared, a white transparent process alone remaining […]”

“Monorchides, as they are called, have been known to be prolific.”

“Monorchides, or persons possessing only one testicle, are now excluded even from the doubtful causes of impotence […]”

“I myself knew a civil official in Europe, a monorchis with large penis, who was very vigorous in sexualibus until advanced age, and late in life begat two boys, the younger of whom is also a monorchis. […] In many places the popular belief accredits such monorchids with possessing extraordinary power.”

“The same practices are recorded in the case of Tamerlane, the Asiatic conqueror, who was also a monorchis.”

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