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hypospadias

In medicine, relatively rare birth deformity affecting male infants, in which the urethral opening is in the wrong place on the penis. It is corrected by surgery.
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In humans, concern has been focused on endocrine-disrupting chemicals with either estrogenic or antiestrogenic effects, which may be related to an increasing incidence of hypospadia in newborn boys (Dolk 1998; Paulozzi 1999).
Increased concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls, ... by Kolmert, Torgny / Environmental Health Perspectives
A birth defect in baby boys called hypospadia, which is a shortening of the urethra that requires surgery to correct, has doubled in this country in the past 20 years.
DR. PHILIP LANDRIGAN: A Prescription to Better Serve Kids by J.B. / E
More recently, Skakkebaek's team has biopsied young boys with other conditions that have been linked to testicular cancer -- for example, hypospadia, a partially unfused penis, or
Manhood's cancer by Raloff, Janet / Science News
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