testis

A testicle of a vertebrate.

Noun

  1. A testicle of a vertebrate.
    • In the Middle Ages, for instance, a recipe for sex stimulation required the putrefied flesh of a human corpse, together with both human and animal testes and ovaries, pimento, and alcohol. - 1961, Harry E. Wedeck,...
  2. An analogous gland in invertebrates such as the hydra.

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin testis.

Forms

testes

Related

aberratio testis rete testis testicle testicular testicond

Derived

ovotestis testitis testosterone undescended testis