hydrocele

English

Etymology

From French hydrocèle or Latin hydrocele, from Ancient Greek ὑδροκήλη, from ὑδρο- ‘water’ + κήλη ‘tumour’.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈhaɪdɹəsiːl/

Noun

hydrocele (plural hydroceles)

  1. An abnormal build-up of fluids at a site in the body, especially in the membranes around a testicle.
    • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004), page 205:
      For while he refers to his gout (a good disease), he does not mention the complaint which indirectly killed him, his hydrocele – an enlargement of the scrotum.
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