Vanishing testis refers to the disappearance of one or other testis during embryonic or foetal development.
It is one of the causes of monorchism, and is thought to be due to intrauterine testicular torsion.
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“Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)