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orchitis
(or-ki´tis)
inflammation of a testis, which occurs occasionally in infectious diseases such as syphilis, tuberculosis, glanders, leprosy, and certain parasitic diseases. It usually accompanies epididymitis. Acute orchitis may also occur in diseases such as typhoid fever, pneumonia, or mumps in adult males. The symptoms of acute orchitis are swelling of one or both testes with pain and sensitivity to touch. In
chronic orchitis there is no pain but the testes swell slowly and become hard. adj., orchit´ic., adj.

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