foreskin
Americannoun
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foreskins
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of foreskin
1525–35; fore- + skin; probably on the model of German Vorhaut (Luther); cf. prepuce
Example Sentences
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While people with phimosis are often incapable of moving the foreskin back from the head, “Score 1” phimosis refers to a retractable foreskin that is tight behind the head.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2021
After experiencing some problems with bleeding and tearing, I had been diagnosed with phimosis, a condition in which the foreskin retracts with difficulty or not at all.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2019
He was given steroid cream to stretch his foreskin, but went back to the doctor after just a few weeks because he did not think the treatment was working.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2019
According to Liu, “the cytokines can play roles such as recruiting immune cells to foreskin, and the immune cells themselves are what HIV infects.”
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2017
Immediately after the blow had been delivered, an assistant who follows the circumcision master takes the foreskin that is on the ground and ties it to a comer of your blanket.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
The main difference is people want to talk to me more than usual, if only about foreskins, and relative strangers keep touching my face.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 7, 2018
Men’s foreskins are rich in immune-system cells, which are there to prevent the entry via the penis of infectious agents.
From Economist ● Jul. 25, 2012
Short of little, green men, the next best global unifier may be an assault on a parent’s right to determine the fate of little baby foreskins.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 14, 2012
Among circumcised men in Orange Farm, 6.2 percent have HIV, compared with 20 percent of those whose foreskins are intact, today’s findings show.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 20, 2011
Biobanks store appendixes, ovaries, skin, sphincters, testicles, fat, even foreskins from most circumcisions.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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