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Foreskin   Listen
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Foreskin  n.  (Anat.) The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.






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"Foreskin" Quotes from Famous Books



... the male, a tight or long foreskin is a frequent cause of the habit. The constant contact of the prepuce with the most sensitive part of the organ increases its sensibility. The secretion is retained, and accumulates, often becoming hardened. In this ...
— Plain Facts for Old and Young • John Harvey Kellogg

... the form of a gonorrhoeal phymosis. The orifice of the prepuce is contracted, and the tissue of it infiltrated. If in this state of the part, consequent upon diseased action, or in that of Fig. 1, which is congenital, the foreskin be retracted over the glans, a paraphymosis, like Fig. 2, ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise

... and Romans, appear to have been accustomed to cover the foreskin with the kynodesme (a band), or the fibula (a ring), for custom and modesty demanded that the glans should be concealed. Such covering is represented in persons who were compelled to be naked, and is referred to by Celsus ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... remember and difficulty in pronunciation of certain words being the most common. Certain affections of the womb and its appendages, in women, and, in men, stricture of the urethra, adherent prepuce, or foreskin, with wounds and injuries, many times of nerves and organs remote from the paralyzed points, cause the ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce



Words linked to "Foreskin" :   phallus, member, button, prepuce, penis



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