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Foreskin   Listen
noun
Foreskin  n.  (Anat.) The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Foreskin" Quotes from Famous Books



... leaven has seven names in Scripture. It is called evil, the foreskin, uncleanness, an enemy, a scandal, a heart of stone, the north wind; all this signifies the malignity which is concealed and impressed ...
— Pascal's Pensees • Blaise Pascal

... feeling much irritation, he scratched himself violently. He soon bled copiously, his shirt and underlying sheets and blankets being soaked through. On examination the penis was found swollen, and on drawing back the foreskin a small jet of blood spurted from a small rupture in the frenum. The authors have knowledge of a case in which hemorrhage from the frenum proved fatal. The patient, in a drunken wager, attempted to circumcise himself with a piece of tin, and bled to ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould



Words linked to "Foreskin" :   penis, clit, skin, clitoris, cutis



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