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Epispadias

Epispadias \Ep`i*spa"di*as\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon + ? to draw, rend.] (Med.) A deformity in which the urethra opens upon the top of the penis, instead of at its extremity.

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epispadias

n. (context medicine English) A deformity in which the urethra opens upon the top of the penis, instead of at its extremity.

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epispadias

n. a congenital abnormality in males in which the urethra is on the upper surface of the penis

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Epispadias

An epispadias is a rare type of malformation of the penis in which the urethra ends in an opening on the upper aspect (the dorsum) of the penis. It can also develop in females when the urethra develops too far anteriorly. It occurs in around 1 in 120,000 male and 1 in 500,000 female births.

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This latter case seems hardly warranted when we consider that men afflicted with hypospadias and epispadias have become fathers.

On the other hand, a cleft scrotum, an ill-developed penis, perhaps hypospadias or epispadias, rotundity of the mammae, and feminine contour have also provoked accounts of similar instances.

Gay describes a child with epispadias whose penis had undergone such torsion on its axis that its inferior surface looked upward to the left, and the child passed urine toward the left shoulder.

Follin mentions a similar instance in a boy of twelve with complete epispadias, and Verneuil and Guerlin also record cases, both complicated with associate maldevelopment.