"purse-like tegumentary investment of the testes and part of the spermatic cord; the cod" [Century Dictionary], 1590s, from Latin scrotum, probably transposed from scortum "a skin, hide" (see corium), perhaps by influence of scrautum "leather quiver for arrows."
"Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotum-tightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton." [Joyce, "Ulysses"]
Related: Scrotal.
实用例句
1. The male gonads , the testes, lie outside the abdomen within the scrotum.
公畜的生殖腺 -- 睾丸, 位于腹壁内的阴囊内.来自辞典例句
2. The male gonads , the testis, lie outside the abdomen within the scrotum.
公畜的生殖腺 -- 睾丸, 位于腹壁外的阴囊内.来自辞典例句
3. Sometimes the testis fails to enter the scrotum.
有时睾丸未能降入阴囊.来自辞典例句
4. Voiding cystourethrography demonstrated a dog - ear bladder herniation into the right scrotum.
解尿膀胱尿道摄影呈现一个狗耳朵状的膀胱疝气进到右侧阴囊.来自互联网
5. Leaves: prevents epidemic influenza, epidemic meningitis, influenza, enteritis , eczema of the scrotum.
