cryptorchid

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crypt·or·chid | \ krip-ˈtȯr-kəd

Definition of cryptorchid

: one affected with cryptorchidism

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Recent Examples on the Web Neuter procedures will not be performed on cryptorchid dogs – a condition in which one or both testicles have fail to descend. — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2017

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History and Etymology for cryptorchid

borrowed from the stem of New Latin cryptorchides, plural of cryptorchis (attested later) "having undescended testicles, a person with such a condition," from crypt- crypt- + -orchis, in monorchis monorchid

Note: As with monorchid, the stem of Greek órchis "testicle" was erroneously taken to be orchid-; cf. Greek krýpsorchis "undescended testicles," used by galen.

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