Hydrocele vs Hydronephrosis - What's the difference?
hydrocele | hydronephrosis |
An abnormal build-up of fluids at a site in the body, especially in the membranes around a testicle.
* 2003 , Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004), page 205:
(pathology) distension of the kidneys due to obstruction in the flow of urine
As nouns the difference between hydrocele and hydronephrosis
is that hydrocele is an abnormal build-up of fluids at a site in the body, especially in the membranes around a testicle while hydronephrosis is (pathology) distension of the kidneys due to obstruction in the flow of urine.hydrocele
English
Noun
(en noun)- For while he refers to his gout (a good disease), he does not mention the complaint which indirectly killed him, his hydrocele – an enlargement of the scrotum.