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phimosis
[fahy-moh-sis, fi-]
noun
plural
phimosesconstriction of the orifice of the prepuce so as to prevent the foreskin from being drawn back to uncover the glans penis.
a similar condition involving the clitoris.
narrowness of the vagina.
phimosis
/ ڲɪˈəʊɪ /
noun
abnormal tightness of the foreskin, preventing its being retracted over the tip of the penis
Other Word Forms
- phimotic adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of phimosis1
Example Sentences
Marvin was successfully treated for phimosis as a child using steroid cream, and he is concerned some consultants might be advising circumcision unnecessarily.
Pray, Sir, quoth my uncle Toby, in a manner which could 295 not go unanswered,—in what condition is the boy?—’Twill end in a phimosis, replied Dr. Slop.
All cases of phimosis should be operated upon in infancy, by complete or partial circumcision.
The requisites are a sharp-pointed bistoury, blunt-pointed scissors, and a pair of Henry’s phimosis forceps, with fine needles and fine oculists’ suture silk.
In the other case, in which phimosis also existed, there was paralysis of a few of the muscles of the leg, which produced club-foot.
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