prepuce

[pree-pyoos]

noun

Anatomy.

1. the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.

2. a similar covering of the clitoris.

prepuce

/ ˈpriːpjuːs, priːˈpjuːʃəl /

noun

1. Nontechnical name: foreskin. the retractable fold of skin covering the tip of the penis

2. a similar fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris

Other Word Forms

• preputial adjective
• subpreputial adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of prepuce¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French < Latin praepūtium

Word History and Origins

Origin of prepuce¹

C14: from Latin praepūtium

Example Sentences

The tightest binding, though, is the title word, which becomes, as they say, an umbrella term: referring to an anti-shell device in the trenches, a retracted foreskin revealing a prepuce, an intra-muscular syringe.

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The effects of long-continued mutilations are not inherited, but Darwin cites as a possible case the Mahommedans of Celebes, in whom the prepuce is very small.

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When in a state of repose it is retracted, by a muscle arising from the sacrum, within the prepuce, a cutaneous fold attached below the symphysis pubis.

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I was called to see Mr. D., at Old Point, who had been bitten by a small, black spider on the prepuce, whilst on the privy seat, at 12:30 o'clock.

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A whole system of nosology exists in some minds due to an over-long prepuce.

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