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Descriptor English: Testicular Hydrocele
Descriptor Spanish: Hidrocele Testicular
Descriptor hidrocele testicular
Scope note: Acumulación circunscrita de líquido, especialmente en la túnica vaginal del testículo o a lo largo del cordón espermático. (Dorland, 27 ed)
Descriptor Portuguese: Hidrocele Testicular
Descriptor French: Hydrocèle
Entry term(s): Hydrocele, Scrotal
Hydrocele, Testicular
Hydrocele, Vaginal
Hydroceles, Scrotal
Hydroceles, Testicular
Hydroceles, Vaginal
Scrotal Hydrocele
Scrotal Hydroceles
Testicular Hydroceles
Vaginal Hydrocele
Vaginal Hydroceles
Tree number(s): C12.100.500.882
C12.200.294.882
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006848
Scope note: Accumulation of serous fluid between the layers of membrane (tunica vaginalis) covering the TESTIS in the SCROTUM.
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
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
Public MeSH Note: 2007; see HYDROCELE 1966-2006
History Note: 2007; use HYDROCELE 1966-2006
DeCS ID: 7001
Unique ID: D006848
NLM Classification: WJ 800
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Date Established: 2007/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2006/07/05
Testicular Hydrocele - Preferred
Concept UI M0010698
Scope note Accumulation of serous fluid between the layers of membrane (tunica vaginalis) covering the TESTIS in the SCROTUM.
Preferred term Testicular Hydrocele
Entry term(s) Hydrocele, Scrotal
Hydrocele, Testicular
Hydrocele, Vaginal
Hydroceles, Scrotal
Hydroceles, Testicular
Hydroceles, Vaginal
Scrotal Hydrocele
Scrotal Hydroceles
Testicular Hydroceles
Vaginal Hydrocele
Vaginal Hydroceles



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