sarcocele Path.
(ˈsɑːkəʊsiːl)
[ad. mod.L. sarcocēlē (G. Valla, 1501), a. Gr. σαρκοκήλη, f. σαρκο-, σαρξ flesh + κήλη tumour.]
Hard fleshy enlargement of the testicle.
| 1742 tr. Heister's Surg. ii. (1768) II. 115 A recent Sarcocele may frequently be suppurated by digestive Medicines. 1783 Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 22 Sept., The complaint about which you enquire is a sarcocele: I thought it a hydrocele and heeded it but little. 1861 Bumstead Ven. Dis. (1879) 634 Syphilitic sarcocele, orchitis, or albuginitis, as it is variously termed. |