Crossword clues for testis
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Testis \Tes"tis\, n.; pl. Testes. [L.] (Anat.) A testicle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
(plural testes), 1704, from Latin testis "testicle," usually regarded as a special application of testis "witness" (see testament), presumably because it "bears witness to male virility" [Barnhart]. Stories that trace the use of the Latin word to some supposed swearing-in ceremony are modern and groundless.\n
\nCompare Greek parastatai "testicles," from parastates "one that stands by;" and French slang témoins, literally "witnesses." But Buck thinks Greek parastatai "testicles" has been wrongly associated with the legal sense of parastates "supporter, defender" and suggests instead parastatai in the sense of twin "supporting pillars, props of a mast," etc. Or it might be a euphemistic use of the word in the sense "comrades." OED, meanwhile, points to Walde's suggestion of a connection between testis and testa "pot, shell, etc." (see tete).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) A testicle of a vertebrate 2 (context biology English) An analogous gland in invertebrates such as the hydra
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "testis".
The uterus, nearly as large as in the adult female, lay between the bladder and rectum, and was enclosed between two layers of peritoneum, to which, on either side of the uterus, were attached the testes.
It would have made the newspapers except the dead man was found piled atop three others who died of acute undescended testicles, a condition that usually meant the testes had not dropped into the scrotum from the abdominal sac after birth.
The child was weak, the testes undescended, and it lived but eighteen days, dying of symptoms of atrophy.
Through the agency of compression one of the testes was forced along the corpus cavernosum under the skin as far as the glans penis.
In cases of partial and even complete impotency, especially in elderly men, attended with nervous exhaustion, most astonishingly favorable results are obtained by our specialists through the administration of our extracts obtained from the nerve tissue of the spinal cord, associated with the use of the expressed juices from animal testes.
Thus, an enzyme defect may result in a male pseudohermaphrodite, defined as someone possessing some female structures as well as testes.
There's a theory that even with the testes removed the adrenal cortex puts out enough testosterone to trigger Transition, but that's never been proved.
I read about hyperadrenocorticism and feminizing testes and something called cryptorchidism, which applied to me.
The delicate balance of endocrine glands: testes and thyroid and adrenals and pancreas and pituitary.
It invaded his prostate, his testes, his epididymis, rendering him sterile several times over, the hard way.
Testis omnium gentium, praeterquam Romanorum, absentia mulierum, quae sanctorum apostolorum limina orandi gratia timent visere, cum nonnullas ante dies paucos, hunc audierint conjugatas, viduas, virgines vi oppressisse, (Liutprand, Hist. l.
Microscopic examination of the testes revealed apparently normal sperm development in the lactating males.
Testis omnium gentium, praeterquam Romanorum, absentia mulierum, quae sanctorum apostolorum limina orandi gratia timent visere, cum nonnullas ante dies paucos, hunc audierint conjugatas, viduas, virgines vi oppressisse, (Liutprand, Hist.
With six healthy children, it's obvious that Marcos Ribeira's testes were the last of his glands to be affected.
He'd rather believe that somehow Ivanova's parents didn't notice that Marcos had the disease, and so she married him in ignorance, even though Ockham's razor decrees that we believe the simplest explanation: Maredo's decay progressed like every other, testes first, and all of Novinha's children were sired by someone else.