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Abstract
Accumulation of serous fluid between the layers of membrane (tunica vaginalis) covering the TESTIS in the SCROTUM.
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- Scrotal Hydrocele
- Vaginal Hydrocele
- Hydrocele, Scrotal
- Hydrocele, Testicular
- Hydrocele, Vaginal
- Hydroceles, Scrotal
- Hydroceles, Testicular
- Hydroceles, Vaginal
- Scrotal Hydroceles
- Testicular Hydroceles
- Vaginal Hydroceles
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
"vaginal hydrocele" is of the tunica vaginalis of the testis, not of the vagina; in females, hydrocele of Nuck's canal is a watery dilatation of the processus vaginalis peritonei: index under PERITONEAL DISEASES
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History Note
2007; use HYDROCELE 1966-2006
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Testicular Hydrocele. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006848. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006848
- Testicular Hydrocele. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocele
- Testicular Hydrocele. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q584211