hydrocele

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French hydrocèle or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin hydrocele, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ὑδροκήλη, from ὑδρο- ‘water’ + κήλη ‘tumour’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪdɹəsiːl/

Noun

hydrocele (plural hydroceles)

1. An abnormal build-up of fluids at a site in the body, especially in the membranes around a testicle.
   • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004), page 205:

     For while he refers to his gout (a good disease), he does not mention the complaint which indirectly killed him, his hydrocele – an enlargement of the scrotum.