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Letter: Cryptorchidism--incidence in British Columbia and among sibs. 1975

R B Lowry

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D001955 British Columbia A province of Canada on the Pacific coast. Its capital is Victoria. The name given in 1858 derives from the Columbia River which was named by the American captain Robert Gray for his ship Columbia which in turn was named for Columbus. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p178 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p81-2)
D003456 Cryptorchidism A developmental defect in which a TESTIS or both TESTES failed to descend from high in the ABDOMEN to the bottom of the SCROTUM. Testicular descent is essential to normal SPERMATOGENESIS which requires temperature lower than the BODY TEMPERATURE. Cryptorchidism can be subclassified by the location of the maldescended testis. Testis, Undescended,Abdominal Cryptorchidism,Bilateral Cryptorchidism,Cryptorchidism, Unilateral Or Bilateral,Cryptorchism,Inguinal Cryptorchidism,Testes, Undescended,Undescended Testis,Unilateral Cryptorchidism,Cryptorchidism, Abdominal,Cryptorchidism, Bilateral,Cryptorchidism, Inguinal,Cryptorchidism, Unilateral,Undescended Testes
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man

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