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Descriptor English: Orchitis
Descriptor Spanish: Orquitis
Descriptor orquitis
Scope note: Inflamación de un testículo. La enfermedad se caracteriza por dolor, inflamación y sensación de peso. Puede producirse de manera idiopática o ir asociada con parotiditis, gonorrea, filariasis, sífilis o tuberculosis. (Dorland, 27 ed)
Descriptor Portuguese: Orquite
Descriptor French: Orchite
Entry term(s): Orchitides
Tree number(s): C12.100.500.829.493
C12.200.294.829.493
C19.391.829.493
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009920
Scope note: Inflammation of a TESTIS. It has many features of EPIDIDYMITIS, such as swollen SCROTUM; PAIN; PYURIA; and FEVER. It is usually related to infections in the URINARY TRACT, which likely spread to the EPIDIDYMIS and then the TESTIS through either the VAS DEFERENS or the lymphatics of the SPERMATIC CORD.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
DeCS ID: 10099
Unique ID: D009920
NLM Classification: WJ 830
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2006/07/05
Orchitis - Preferred
Concept UI M0015383
Scope note Inflammation of a TESTIS. It has many features of EPIDIDYMITIS, such as swollen SCROTUM; PAIN; PYURIA; and FEVER. It is usually related to infections in the URINARY TRACT, which likely spread to the EPIDIDYMIS and then the TESTIS through either the VAS DEFERENS or the lymphatics of the SPERMATIC CORD.
Preferred term Orchitis
Entry term(s) Orchitides



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