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What does hydrocele mean?

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Noun
  1. An abnormal build-up of fluids at a site in the body, especially in the membranes around a testicle.
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This however is not the case in respect to the dropsy of the ovarium, or in the hydrocele.
These membranes form a closed, fluid-lined sac, like a deflated balloon, that sometimes swells up to become a hydrocele.
Trauma often may result in hematoma, hydrocele, hematocele, testicular fracture, or testicular rupture.
In a second paper, in the next number of this volume, he gives an original and successful operation for hydrocele.
Collect ascitic, pleuritic, or hydrocele fluid in sterile flasks and allow to stand in the ice-chest for twelve hours to sediment.
However, there are differences in the epidemiology and pathophysiology of elephantiasis and hydrocele.

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