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prepuce

/pree-pyoos/US // ˈpri pyus //UK // (ˈpriːpjuːs) //

包包皮,包皮,包皮过长,包皮垢

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Anatomy.

    • : the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.
    • : a similar covering of the clitoris.

Examples

  • The practice of parading the prepuce once a year continued until it disappeared in 1983.

  • Or, like the assumed culprit in the 1983 theft of the holy prepuce, is the Vatican itself involved?

  • At least a dozen towns (most of them in France) claimed to have the prized prepuce.

  • How effectually is that reproach removed by abstracting a small portion of the prepuce?

  • Infibulation was practiced in two ways,—by a ring through the prepuce or by a bandage around it.

  • Paul says in cases of sloughing of the prepuce we must cut it off, and if there be haemorrhage we must use lunated cauteries ( ).

  • This operation (mahele) consisted in slitting the prepuce by means of a bamboo.

  • It is most marked in chancres situated in the furrow between the glans and the prepuce.