Editing Testicle (section)

==Society and culture==
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[[File:Yoshitoshi tanuki.jpg|thumb|Depiction of ''[[bake-danuki]]'' with oversized testicles]]
The testicles of [[Calf (animal)|calves]], [[Sheep|lambs]], [[rooster]]s, [[Turkey as food|turkeys]], and other animals are eaten in many parts of the world, often under [[euphemistic]] [[culinary name]]s. Testicles are a by-product of the castration of young animals raised for meat, so they might have been a late-spring seasonal specialty.<ref name="Mason-2014">{{Cite book|last=Mason|first=Laura|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RL6LAwAAQBAJ&dq=spanish+cooking+testicles&pg=PA816|title=The Oxford Companion to Food|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2014|isbn=9780199677337|editor-last=Davidson|editor-first=Alan|pages=816|language=en|access-date=2021-12-05|archive-date=2023-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629161308/https://books.google.com/books?id=RL6LAwAAQBAJ&dq=spanish+cooking+testicles&pg=PA816|url-status=live}}</ref> In modern times, they are generally frozen and available year-round.

In the [[Middle Ages]], men who wanted a boy sometimes had their left testicle removed. This was because people believed that the right testicle made "boy" sperm and the left made "girl" sperm.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://genetics.thetech.org/ask/ask76 |title=Understanding Genetics |website=[[The Tech Interactive]] |archive-date=9 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109115247/http://genetics.thetech.org/ask/ask76 |url-status=dead}}</ref> As early as 330 BC, [[Aristotle]] prescribed the ligation (tying off) of the left testicle in men wishing to have boys.<ref>Hoag, Hannah. [http://dfire.org/x1405.xml I'll take a girl, please... ''Cherry-picking from the dish of life'']. Drexel University Publication. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831122518/http://dfire.org/x1405.xml |date=August 31, 2011 }}</ref>

===Etymology and slang===
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One theory about the etymology of the word ''testis'' is based on [[Roman law]]. The original [[Latin]] word {{Lang|la|testis}} {{gloss|witness}}, was used in the firmly established legal principle "{{Lang|la|Testis unus, testis nullus}}" (one witness [equals] no witness), meaning that testimony by any one person in court was to be disregarded unless corroborated by the testimony of at least another. This led to the common practice of producing two witnesses, bribed to testify the same way in cases of lawsuits with ulterior motives. Since such witnesses always came in pairs, the meaning was accordingly extended, often in the diminutive ({{lang|la|testiculus, testiculi}}).{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}}

Another theory says that ''testis'' is influenced by a loan translation, from Greek {{Transliteration|el|parastatēs}} {{gloss|defender (in law), supporter}} that is "two glands side by side".<ref>[[The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language]], Fourth Edition</ref>

There are multiple slang terms for the testes. They may be referred to as "balls". Frequently, "[[Nut (fruit)|nuts]]" (sometimes intentionally misspelled as "nutz") are also a slang term for the testes due to the geometric resemblance. One variant of the term includes "Deez Nuts", which was used for a [[Deez Nuts (satirist)|satirical political candidate in 2016]]. 

In [[Spanish language|Spanish]], the term {{Lang|es|huevos}} is used, which is Spanish for [[egg]]s.