Foreskin vs Foreskinless - What's the difference?
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The retractable fold of skin encompassing the most nerve-dense tissue in the human male, which naturally covers and protects the head of the penis.
Without a foreskin; circumcised.
* 2006 , Eric Kline Silverman, From Abraham to America: a history of Jewish circumcision (page 29)
As a noun foreskin
is the retractable fold of skin encompassing the most nerve-dense tissue in the human male, which naturally covers and protects the head of the penis.As an adjective foreskinless is
without a foreskin; circumcised.foreskin
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Noun
(en noun)- And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. — Genesis 17:14, the Christian Bible.
- In primates, the foreskin is present in the genitalia of both sexes and likely has been present for millions of years of evolution.
- "The foreskin has two main functions. Firstly it exists to protect the glans penis. Secondly the foreskin is a primary sensory part of the penis, containing some of the most sensitive areas of the penis." - The Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- The female clitoral hood is homologous with the foreskin .
Synonyms
* prepuce * See alsoSee also
* circumcise, circumcisionExternal links
* ("foreskin" on Wikipedia)References
foreskinless
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Adjective
(-)- Rabbinic and mystical texts affirm the foreskinless birth of a dozen or so biblical men