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Type Words
Synonyms foreskin
Type of tegument, cutis, skin
Type Words
Synonyms foreskin
Type of tegument, skin, cutis

Examples of prepuce

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The scrotum, penis, and prepuce are usually coated with a foul-smelling secretion.
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Analysis of shape and retractability of the prepuce in 603 Japanese boys.
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Anatomy and histology of the penile and clitoral prepuce in primates.
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If you think it's wrong to remove a girl's prepuce, then why isn't it wrong to remove a boy's?
From the guardian.co.uk
Notably, both links cite sources for the prepuce claims.
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The fold of the prepuce maintains sub-preputial wetness, which mixes with exfoliated skin to form smegma.
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Also, FGM has many forms, the mildest of which involves removal of the hood of the clitoris, the prepuce.
From the guardian.co.uk
The cutaneous innervation of human newborn prepuce.
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It's illegal to cut off a girl's prepuce, or to make any incision on a girl's genitals, even if no tissue is removed.
From the guardian.co.uk
Holy prepuce got 23,000 hits for the month.
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She explained that they clean the genitals and then use sterilised scissors to cut off part of the hood, or prepuce, and the tip of the clitoris.
From the guardian.co.uk
The analogous hood of skin or prepuce which covers the clitoris is much smaller, leading to a greater incidence of outright clitorectomy, even when this is not the intention.
From the independent.co.uk
Features like long eyelashes, eyebrows, lockable nostrils, caudal opening of the prepuce and a relatively small vulva help the camel avoid injuries, especially while feeding.
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It is also described as the prepuce, a technically broader term that also includes the clitoral hood in women, to which the foreskin is embryonically homologous.
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More examples
  • A fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris
  • From L. prae, in front, and putium, penis
  • A dorsal prepucial diverticulum is present; has been incriminated in infectious processes (but without proof)
  • Latin praeputium = foreskin (of penis or clitoris).
  • A fold of cutaneous tissue over the glans penis.
  • A fold of skin formed by the labia minora.
  • A piece of skin in the uncircumcized male that covers the glans penis. (31)