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What does hypospadias mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) A birth defect of the male urethra that involves an abnormally placed urinary meatus.
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They also reported that the incidence of testicular tumours, cryptorchidism, and hypospadias is increasing.
Philip Landrigan, a professor of pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, says that a congenital defect called hypospadias — a misplacement of the urethra — is now twice as common among newborn boys as it used to be.
In the final stage the pendulous neourethra is created and tubularized similar to a hypospadias repair.
The study did not find links between the multivitamins and the prevention of Down syndrome, pyloric stenosis, undescended testis, or hypospadias.
Particular interest in vesicoureteric reflux, hypospadias and continent urinary diversion.
Twenty parents whose male children were admitted for elective hypospadias repair procedures were interviewed using a qualitative approach.

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