Foreskin

Etymology
From fore-: + skin:.

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 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. &mdash; 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.

Synonyms

 * prepuce
 * See also Thesaurus:foreskin

Translations

 * See also prepuce


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 * Danish: forhud
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 * German:, Präputium
 * Hebrew: עָרְלָה, עוֹרְלָה
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 * Indonesian: kulup


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 * Russian:, препуций
 * Serbian: predkožica, obrezak
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 * Turkish: sünnet derisi, prepusyum