Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.
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one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away"
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one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away"
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Urology, Endocrinology.The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Urology, Endocrinology.The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Urology, Endocrinology.A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs gro…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Urology, Endocrinology.One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Urology, Endocrinology.A testicle.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Urology, Endocrinology.a man's testicles
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Urology, Endocrinology.a testis that fails to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops; "undescended testicles have an increased risk for cancer"
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Urology, Endocrinology.a testis that fails to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops; "undescended testicles have an increased risk for cancer"
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Urology, Endocrinology.enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by o…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.enlarged prostate; appears to be part of the natural aging process
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Urology.enlarged prostate; appears to be part of the natural aging process
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Urology.the operation of introducing a catheter into the body
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Urology.an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria; "when doctors say ‘diabetes’ they usual…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Endocrinology.diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria; "when doctors say ‘diabetes’ they usual…
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Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: male, reproductive, glands, produce, spermatozoa.A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: male, reproductive, glands, produce, spermatozoa.The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: male, reproductive, glands, produce, spermatozoa.A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: male, reproductive, glands, produce, spermatozoa.The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymph…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: male, reproductive, glands, produce, spermatozoa.An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: male, reproductive, glands, produce, spermatozoa.An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: male, reproductive, glands, produce, spermatozoa.An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary gland…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: male, reproductive, glands, produce, spermatozoa.Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: male, reproductive, glands, produce, spermatozoa.Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: male, reproductive, glands, produce, spermatozoa.One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: male, reproductive, glands, produce, spermatozoa.A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a ver…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: male, reproductive, glands, produce, spermatozoa.Capable or deserving of being kicked.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: male, reproductive, glands, produce, spermatozoa.
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