didymus

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ancient Greek δίδυμος (dídumos, twin)

Noun[edit]

didymus (plural didymi)

  1. (obsolete, very rare) A testis.
    • 1975, Levi Robert Lind, Studies in pre-Vesalian anatomy: biography, translations, documents:
      But before you move aside the pubic bone look at the two didymi from the substance of the peritoneum, passing in the groin above the pubic bone on the right and left.