glans penis

[glanz pee-nis]

noun

Anatomy.

1. the highly sensitive bell-shaped end of the penis.

Word History and Origins

Origin of glans penis¹

First recorded in 1675–85

Example Sentences

Not infrequently the seat of disease may be at some distance from that of pain, as in the familiar instances of pain at the top of the head in uterine derangement; in the glans penis from calculus in the bladder; in the knee from hip-joint disease; under the shoulder-blade in liver disorder; about the heart or between the shoulders from dyspepsia.

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Occasional pain, of short duration, in glans penis,1 .

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Cold feeling in the glans penis.

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Painful, voluptuous tickling in the whole of the glans penis.

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Paraphimosis, par-a-fī-mō′sis, n. strangulation of the glans penis by constriction of the prepuce.

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