hipospadia

Indonesian

Etymology

Affixed hipo- + *spadia, from English hypospadias, from Ancient Greek ὑποσπαδίᾱς (hupospadíās, one who has the orifice of the urethra too low).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hipoˈspadia̯/
  • Hyphenation: hi‧po‧spa‧dia

Noun

hipospadia (first-person possessive hipospadiaku, second-person possessive hipospadiamu, third-person possessive hipospadianya)

  1. (pathology) hypospadias: a congenital condition in males in which the opening of the urethra is on the underside of the penis.

Further reading

Spanish

Noun

hipospadia f (plural hipospadias)

  1. Alternative form of hipospadias
    • 2015 October 8, “¿Una erección natural de 4 horas? No es una leyenda urbana”, in El País:
      En el caso de las hipospadias y las epispadias, un tipo de anomalías congénitas (de nacimiento), que suceden porque la apertura de la uretra no se encuentra en la punta del pene, como es habitual.
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