Testis descent and temperature Descent of testes is surely connected with the fact that all mammals are “warm-blooded”, typically having high core body temperatures around 37 o C (98.6 o F). Going ...

Cryptorchidism, or undescended testis, ranks among the most frequent congenital urogenital anomalies in male infants. The condition arises from disrupted testicular descent during fetal development, a ...

Complete descent of a testis occurs in two distinct stages. Both involve a ligament attached to the base of the testis, the gubernaculum (from the same Ancient Greek stem that gave us “governor”). In ...