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prepuce
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prepuce
1. the retractable fold of skin covering the tip of the penis
2. a similar fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris
prepuce [′prēp·əs]
(anatomy)
The foreskin of the penis, a fold of skin covering the glans penis.
A similar fold over the glans clitoridis.
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Prof Jack Cohen, who has an academic career spanning 55 years, has given his support to Norm-UK, a charity founded in 1995, to educate the public and medical profession about the foreskin.
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