penile foreskin

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penile foreskin (plural penile foreskins)

  1. (anatomy) The male foreskin.
    Synonym: praeputium penis
    • 1996, Joan H. Rollins, Women's Minds/women's Bodies:
      The clitoris and the penis, so also the clitoral hood and the penile foreskin, develop from a single set of precursors.
    • 2006, Eric Kline Silverman, From Abraham to America, page 28:
      The penile foreskin, especially to the rabbis, is a similar gift to God
    • 2022, Ezio Di Nucci, Ji-Young Lee, Isaac A. Wagner, The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics, page 303:
      Here we are talking about the penile foreskin, but the same argument applies to the clitoral foreskin or labia.
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