ORCHITIS
\ɔːkˈa͡ɪtɪs], \ɔːkˈaɪtɪs], \ɔː_k_ˈaɪ_t_ɪ_s]\
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Inflammation of a testis. The disease is marked by pain, swelling, and a feeling of weight. It may occur idiopathically, or it may be associated with conditions such as mumps, gonorrhea, filarial disease, syphilis, or tuberculosis. (Dorland, 27th ed)
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Inflammation of the testicle.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Inflammation of the testicle. There are three varieties: (1) traumatic, in which the epididymis is usually involved; (2) A chronic inflammation of low grade, occurring in individuals of a gouty or rheumatic diathesis; (3) A form due to acute inflammation in some other part of the body, as a complication of mumps, and occasionally of typhoid fever, influenza, smallpox, tonsillitis, and rheumatism. The symptoms of o. are severe pain, and gradual symmetrical enlargement in one testicle, with sensitiveness, drawing up of the testicle, chills and fever. The disease may end in resolution, leaving a practically normal testicle or in atrophy or gangrene, [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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