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Prepuce

Prepuce \Pre"puce\, n. [F. pr['e]puce, L. praeputium.] (Anat.) The foreskin.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prepuce

c.1400, from Old French prepuce, from Latin praeputium "foreskin," possibly from præ- "before" (see pre-) + *putos "penis." Earlier in English as prepucy (late 14c.), directly from Latin.

Wiktionary
prepuce

n. 1 (context anatomy English) The foreskin, or retractable fold of tissue covering the tip (glans) of the penis. 2 (context anatomy English) The corresponding part of the clitoris.

WordNet
prepuce
  1. n. a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris [syn: foreskin]

  2. a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis [syn: foreskin]

Wikipedia
Prepuce

Prepuce , or as an adjective, preputial , refers to two homologous structures of male and female genitals:

  • Clitoral hood, skin surrounding and protecting the head of the clitoris
  • Foreskin, skin surrounding and protecting the head of the penis in humans
  • Penile sheath, skin surrounding and protecting the head of the penis in other animals

Usage examples of "prepuce".

The two penises are usually somewhat defective as regards prepuce, urethra, etc.

Pare speaks of a woman who, besides a vulva, from which she menstruated, had a penis, but without prepuce or signs of erectility.

The incomplete or irregular development is more frequent, but most common is excessive development of the prepuce, constituting phimosis, when there is abnormal adherence with the glans.

Deficient or absent prepuce has been observed by Blasius, Marcellus Donatus, and Gilibert.

By the violence of the bite the boy was thrown to the ground, and his entire prepuce was stripped off to the root as if it had been done by a knife.

There was little hemorrhage, and the prepuce was found in the trousers, looking exactly like the finger of a glove.

Boyer cites a case of edema of the prepuce, noticed on the fifteenth day of the fever, and which was followed by gangrene of the penis.

The spermatic cord was divided close to the skin, and the skin of the penis and prepuce was torn.

Ricketts remarks that the prepuce of a boy is remarkably good material for grafting.

Phillipe mentions the removal of a calculus weighing 50 grams from the prepuce of an Arab boy of seven.

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 loss of power.

Pontiac, the nasal prepuce of LBJ, crashed helicopters, Eichmann in drag, a dead child.

Johnson is clearly genital in significant appearancethe nasal prepuce, scrotal jaw, etc.

They watched him slowly stretch out and thicken, thrusting out towards her, his prepuce peeling back of its own accord.

At the sound of the approaching voices, all three sat up, hands hastily withdrawn, leaving Michael with a small erection over whose plum glans the prepuce was slow to recover.