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The scrotum was divided into three portions by two raphes, and each lateral compartment contained a fully formed testicle.
This child died because of its anal malformation, which we notice is a frequent associate of malformations or duplicity of the penis.
There is an example in an infant described in which there were two penises, each about 1/2 inch long, and a divided scrotal sac 21 inches long.
Englisch speaks of a German of forty who possessed a double penis of the bifid type. Ballantyne and his associates define diphallic terata as individuals provided with two more or less well-formed and more or less separate penises, who may show also other malformations of the adjoining parts and organs (e.g., septate bladder), but who are not possessed of more than two lower limbs.
This definition excludes, therefore, the cases in which in addition to a double penis there is a supernumerary lower extremity--such a case, for example, as that of Jean Baptista dos Santos, so frequently described by teratologists.
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