Word Meanings - SCROTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the scrotum; as, scrotal hernia.

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• SCROTAL
  Of or pertaining to the scrotum; as, scrotal hernia.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• HERNIAL
  Of, or connected with, hernia.
• SCROTUM
  The bag or pouch which contains the testicles; the cod.
• HERNIA
  A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach