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Noun

hypospadias ‎(usually uncountable, plural hypospadiases)

1. (medicine) A birth defect of the male urethra that involves an abnormally placed urinary meatus.
   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     This condition, hypospadias, may be examined ad stuporem in the hundreds of photographs of Hugh Hampton Young's pioneering text, Genital Abnormalities, Hermaphroditism, and Related Adrenal Diseases (1937).

   • 2016, Jenny Kleeman, The Guardian, 2 July:

     At the same time, they corrected Jack’s hypospadias, a condition that meant his urethra opened at the base of his ****, moving it further up so he could pee more like a boy.

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