glans penis
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of glans penis
First recorded in 1675–85
Example Sentences
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The prepuce, as stated above, usually covers the glans penis in young children and may do so throughout life.
From The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male by Winfield Scott Hall
In children, diphtheria may occur on the vulva, vagina, prepuce, or glans penis, and give rise to difficulty in diagnosis, which is only cleared up by demonstration of the bacillus.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
No ossification was found in a single specimen of Ellobius examined by me although the entire glans penis was removed and cleared without dissection.
From The Baculum in Microtine Rodents by Sydney Anderson
Swelling of the glans penis is not uncommon.
From The Dog by Dinks
Dickinson mentions a Burmese male child, four years old, who had an imperforate anus and urethra, but who passed feces and urine successfully through an opening at the base of the glans penis.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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