orchiopexy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A procedure for fixation of a testis, often to move an undescended testicle into the scrotum and keep it there.

Word forms

orchiopexy orchiopexies orchidopexy

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin orchis + -pexy, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle”) + πῆξις (pêxis, “fixing”).

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