epispadias
MONDO:0019759Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names epispadias yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Epispadias is a congenital genitourinary malformation belonging to the spectrum of the exstrophy-epispadias complex (EEC) and is characterized in males by an ectopic meatus or a mucosal strip in place of the urethra on the penile dorsum and in females by bifid clitoris and a variable cleft of the urethra.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0019759), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
6 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- Displacement of the urethral meatusHPOHP:0100627
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- EpispadiasHPOHP:0000039
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Abnormal pelvic girdle bone morphologyHPOHP:0002644
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Urinary incontinenceHPOHP:0000020
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Vesicoureteral refluxHPOHP:0000076
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Bifid clitorisHPOHP:0030911
- Occasional (5% to 29% of cases)
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
1 name
Resolves to: epispadias
- Also called
- epispadias (disease)