hydatid of Morgagni

English

Etymology

Named after the Italian anatomist Giovanni Battista Morgagni.

Noun

hydatid of Morgagni (plural hydatids of Morgagni)

  1. (anatomy) One of the small pedunculated bodies found between the testicle and the head of the epididymis, and supposed to be a remnant of the Müllerian duct.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hydatid of Morgagni in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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