prepuce
noun
the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.
preputial
-
a word derived from
prepuce.
Example Sentences
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Reduced birth weight, cleft palate and preputial abnormalities in a cloned dog.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 10, 2018
The preputial glands of mice and rats are large modified sebaceous glands that produce pheromones.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
This last is sometimes artificially removed: either on ritual grounds, as, for instance, among the Jews; or for medical reasons, for example, when the preputial orifice is greatly constricted.
From The Sexual Life of the Child by Eden Paul
These, it should be remembered, are only cases where preputial change forced itself on the observer, who was not pursuing investigations on this point.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot
In many instances the causative relation of the preputial disease to the symptoms which it produces is not so apparent as it may be in others, but after correct treatment of the prepuce they disappear.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Peter Charles Remondino
