Hypospadias is derived from the Greek word hypospadias, which is a combination of the words underneath and cleft. According to the Roman physician Vine, this urethral anomaly was first described and named by Grimm as far back as the 2nd century A.D. It is a condition in which the urethra opens at the lower end of its normal position (center of the tip of the glans), anywhere on the ventral side of the penis. When the fetus reaches 6 weeks of development, the genital nodule appears, which is the base of the male glans and female clitoris. Below the genital nodule, a pair of parallel urethral folds are born, and between the two folds, the urethral groove is formed. In the male fetus, at 8-10 weeks, the urethral folds cross the urethral groove and gradually suburethral cleft.