prepuce

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• Typical female circumcision involves removing part of the prepuce, which is the same material that would become the foreskin if the child had been born male.

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• She pushed down the prepuce with her lips, while her tongue darted around the root of his glans.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Here's another one: the male prepuce.

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• "We need to be very clear: if there's no medical issue with the prepuce, there's no "choice" to be made.

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• Evidence that loss of the receptors in the prepuce affects moral and/or neural development would be very interesting to him!

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• At the... er... at the time of the Reformation, there were 14 foreskins of Christ preserved, but it was thought the Church of St. John Lateran in Rome had the authentic prepuce.

  The History Boys (2006)

• As doctors identified a growing list of maladies as results of "phimosis and adherent prepuce," they drifted into a pattern of using these terms expansively.

  Academic text (1994)

• She explained that they clean the genitals and then use sterilized scissors to cut off part of the hood, or prepuce, and the tip of the clitoris.

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• There are several different skulls/pieces thereof which are claimed to belong to John the Baptist, and there have been a large number of 'Holy Prepuce' artifacts—that is to say, supposed bits of Jesus' foreskin (none of which are likely to be authentic, since why would anyone have attached any importance to one particular baby boy's body parts?).

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• The prepuce is a sensitive area of skin that protects the glans of the penis.

Synonyms

F

foreskin

vsprepuce

16 7.4

A fold of skin that covers and protects the tip of the penis

is broader and also applies to the skin fold covering the clitoris

Surface Forms

Etymology