Defn: A collection of serous fluid in the areolar texture of the scrotum or in the coverings, especially in the serous sac, investing the testicle or the spermatic cord; dropsy of the testicle.
Defn: The operation of cutting out or removing a testicle by the knife; castration.
The sexual functions may remain unchanged if only one testicleis diseased, but are generally ruined if both epididymes are affected, because the secretion of the semen is then interrupted by the stopping up of the vas deferens.
The surface of the testicle is at first smooth in the case of increased tension, later only does it become irregular, bumpy and of unequal consistency.
The cord then having been divided close to the tumour, the latter is removed, care being taken not to include the sound testicle in the removal.
By drawing the ends of the hair-loop backward and forward, and at the same time pushing the lower end of the tube, or canula, toward the rump of the fowl, the cord or fastening of the testicle is severed.
Too thick a cord, a knot not tied sufficiently tight, or a portion of thetesticle included in the ligature, will prevent its success.
The left testicle is first cut out, in order to prevent the blood which may issue from covering the one remaining, and so rendering it more difficult to be seen.
Cut off the bottom of the pouch, free the testicle from the inclosing membrane, and then draw it steadily out, or clip the cord with a knife if it does not snap off at a proper distance from the testicle.
If the pig is not more than six weeks old, an incision is made at the bottom of the scrotum, the testicle pushed out, and the cord cut, without any precautionary means whatever.
The pain in the loins and along the course of the ureter from a stone is attended with retraction of the testicle in men, and numbness on the inside of the thigh in women.
This inequality was produced by the protuberance of five or six vesicles of this testicle which advanced forwards; one of which was more prominent than any of the rest.
Mery found, in the testicle of a woman who had conceived, a bone of the upper jaw, with many teeth therein, so perfect that some appeared to be of more than ten years growth.
On the first testicle only two or three apparent lymphatic vesicles remained.
Theroude, a surgeon at Paris, shewed the academy an unformed mass, which he found in the righttesticle of a girl of eighteen years of age.
The other testicle had no glandular body which had pierced the common membrane that covered the testicle, there were only two small ones, which began to form a little protuberance below this membrane.
The external genital organs were in their usual place, but there was only one testicle in the scrotum.
On dissection a right and left testiclewere found in their normal positions, but situated on the right side between the groin and the normal testicle was a supernumerary organ, not in contact, and having a separate and short cord.
Sinclair describes an Irishman of twenty-five who, maniacal from intemperance, first cut off one testicle with a wire nail, and then the second with a trouser-buckle.
Ivanhoff of Bulgaria in 1886 speaks of a man of forty-five who was dealt a blow on thetesticle in a violent street fight, and staggering, he fell insensible.
Taylor quotes a description of a monster, exhibited in London, with two distinct penises, but with only one distinct testicle on either side.
Ingham mentions the escape of semen through the testicle by means of a fistula.
In the following year his right testicle became affected and was also removed.
At the time of report his left testicle was in position, but the right could not be felt.
This prominence contained a testicle normal in shape and sensibility, but slightly undersized, and surrounded, as was evident from its mobility, by a tunica vaginalis.
Injuries of the testicle and scrotum may be productive of most serious issue.
A few, whose practice cannot be justified, seize the testicle as soon as it escapes from the bag, and, pulling violently, break the cord and tear it out.
The other testicleis proceeded with in the same way and the operation is complete.
The testicle immediately bursts from its bag, and is seen hanging by its cord.
The testicle will remain in the sack or scrotum; now grasp the testicle between the fingers and make the incision through the scrotum and to the lower portion.
Before cutting it off it is well to run a needle containing a thread through the last covering of the testicle so as to prevent the membrane from returning.
Now, proceed to locate the testicle by having the hind parts elevated.
After this is securely done, remove the testicleand sew the inner membranes that envelop the rupture and testicle with what is called a "tobacco pouch suture.
When the +Varicocele+ becomes very large, it then destroys the delicate tubing or the testicle itself.
The ovary is to the female what the testicle is to the male.
The left testicle hangs a little higher in the sack than the right, so that, in case the thighs are crowded together, one testicle will slip over the other, and so the danger of crushing them will be avoided.
It would be interesting to know where the seat of his sexual desire is situated, unless an aching testicle is such.
It may also result from inflammation of the testicle or from excited action in those parts.
This was a badly complicated case of spermatorrhea, the patient being also troubled with frequent urination, partial impotency, mucous discharges from the urethra, and a burning sensation in the testicle and groin.
One is that the right ovary furnishes the germs for males, the left for females that the right testicle furnishes sperm capable of fecundating the germs of males, and the left testicle, the germs of the left ovary, for females.
This goes on, becoming steadily more marked, until the pressure of the engorged vessels upon the spermatic cord impedes the full circulation of blood in the testicle and causes a wasting and softening of this gland.
In health the sac-like covering, or investing membrane, of the testicle secretes a limpid fluid which lubricates its inner surface.
Chauliac criticizes the operation in this respect, but says that he has "seen many cases in which men possessed of but one testiclehave procreated, and this is a problem where the lesser of two evils is to be chosen.
He tells us, that a Man from Alcibiades had his left Testicle swell before the Crisis of a Fever.
About the same Time that these Buboes appeared, severals towards the Decline of this Fever complained of a Pain all along the Spermatic Chord; and soon after a Swelling of the Testicle appeared[22].
When it has become scrotal, the cord will be found still on its posterior aspect, while the testicle itself occupies a situation directly below the swelling.
The conjoined tendon, internal inguinal ring, and cremaster muscle, considered in reference to the descent of the testicle and of the hernia.
The tunica vaginalis; c, the testicle invested by the tunic.
However great may be the size of this hernia, even when it becomes scrotal, still the testicle is invariably found below it.
Plate 39, is arrested in the inguinal canal, [Footnote 2] if pressure be made on this passage with a view of causing its closure, the testicle will be prevented from descending.
The inguinal canal is the natural channel through which the spermatic vessels traverse the groin on their way to the testicle in the scrotum.
But when an external inguinal hernia occurs in the female body, the bowel during its descent carries before it a cremasteric covering at the expense of the muscles E F, just in the same way as the testicle does in the foetus.
At this time all these operations for the radical cure of hernia involved the sacrifice of the testicle because the old surgeons wanted to obliterate the ring completely, and thought this the easiest way.
Chauliac discusses the operation in this respect and says that he has seen many cases in which men possessed of but one testicle have procreated, and this is a case where the lesser of two evils is to be chosen.
When a testicle has become reduced in size can it be restored to normal size?
Connected with each testicle is a duct, called the (11) vas deferens that passes up through the loins and over the bladder and becomes enlarged into a small vessel called the (12) ampulla.
Though in infancy there is sometimes but one testicle in the scrotum, and sometimes not any, yet we must not suppose in either case that this is a real defect.
D] Tavernier, in speaking of this strange custom, says that it is the right testicle which they cut off.
In one, the testicle was so much injured that it was removed on the day the wound was received; in the other, it sloughed away shortly after.
A portion of the ascending ramus of the ischium on the right side was driven into the perineum, the soft parts were much injured, and the right testicle was destroyed.
In one there was a severe fracture of the ischium and injury of testicle by grape–shot.
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