Dictionary

hypospadias en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌhʌɪ.pəʊˈspeɪ.di.əs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌhaɪ.pəˈspeɪ.di.əs/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὑποσπαδίᾱς (hupospadíās, “one who has the orifice of the urethra too low”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A congenital condition in males in which the opening of the urethra is on the underside of the penis.
   • This condition, hypospadias, may be examined ad stuporem in the hundreds of photographs of Hugh Hampton Young's pioneering text, Genital Abnormalities, Hermaphroditism, and Related Adrenal Diseases (1937). 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
   • At the same time, they corrected Jack’s hypospadias, a condition that meant his urethra opened at the base of his penis, moving it further up so he could pee more like a boy. 2016 July 2, Jenny Kleeman, The Guardian:

Forms

Antonyms

epispadias

Deriveds

hypospadiology

Translations (8)

id hipospadia (birth defect of the male urethra) · it ipospadia (birth defect of the male urethra) · el υποσπαδίας (birth defect of the male urethra) · es hipospadias (birth defect of the male urethra) · fi hypospadia (birth defect of the male urethra) · ca hipospàdies (birth defect of the male urethra) · pl spodziectwo (birth defect of the male urethra) · ga hipeaspáidias (birth defect of the male urethra)