Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the prepuce: as, preputial folds of skin; preputial follicles or secretions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the prepuce.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to the
prepuce .
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Examples
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Patel RP, AR, Austin JC, Canning DA: Modified tubularized transverse preputial island flap repair for severe proximal hypospadias.
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We can say more: it is easier to clean, disinfect, and apply medicine to the preputial sack than to the vagina.
The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision « Gender Across Borders 2009
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I can also attest from personal experience that middle class Americans widely believed that the preputial sack was filled with decomposing urine, smegma, and other foul smelling sexual secretions.
The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision « Gender Across Borders 2009
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This causes cumulative damage to the preputial sphincter resulting in phimosis and the AAP recommends against this.
Neonatal Circumcision (Controversy? Who, Moi?) 1 Dinosaur 2007
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These specialized structures include the preputial sphincter protection and stimulation, the frenulum, and the ridged band.
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The African species possess anal and preputial glands, with which, along with urine and feces, they mark their home ranges.
26 Mouse Deer 1991
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The prepuce covers a variable amount of the glans, and is separated from it by a potential sacthe preputial sacwhich presents two shallow fossæ, one on either side of the frenulum.
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Scattered glands on the corona, neck, glans and inner layer of the prepuce, the preputial glands, have been described.
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This last is sometimes artificially removed: either on ritual grounds, as, for instance, among the Jews; or for medical reasons, for example, when the preputial orifice is greatly constricted.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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Vanzetti reports 15.91 the removal of a preputial calculus weighing 224 grams.
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