hydrocele

Term: hydrocele

Literally meaning: “a sac of water”

Origin: Anc Greek

ύδωρ/hydor(=water)

+κήλη/kele(=hernia, swelling)

Coined/History

  Ancient Indian Surgeon Sushruta (800 BCE)  described  hydrocele and also how it be punctured and trapped in his book “Sushruta Samhita”.  The term was coined in 5^th cen by famous French surgeon and anatomist Ambroise Pare (c.1510-1590), centuries later in 1964 Peter H Lord described the technique of a bloodless operation for the radical cure of idiopathic hydrocele.

Definition
Hydrocele is the non-painful, typically non harmful serous-fluid accumulation  in any body cavity, specifically of  the scrotum (one or both sides).