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  2. Phimosis - Wikipedia

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    Circumcision is sometimes performed for phimosis, and is an effective treatment; however, this method has become less common as of 2012. [12] While circumcision prevents phimosis, studies of the incidence of healthy infants circumcised for each prevented case of phimosis are inconsistent. [20] [31]

  3. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.

  4. Paraphimosis - Wikipedia

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    Phimosis (both pathologic and normal childhood physiologic forms) is a risk factor for paraphimosis; [5] physiologic phimosis resolves naturally as a child matures, but it may be advisable to treat pathologic phimosis via long-term stretching or elective surgical techniques (such as preputioplasty to loosen the preputial orifice or circumcision ...

  5. List of medical abbreviations: C - Wikipedia

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    cost–benefit analysis (of treatment methods) CBC/DIFF: complete blood count/differential CBD: common bile duct: CBE: clinical breast examination: CBF: cerebral blood flow: CBI: continuous bladder irrigation, as in Hematuria (Acute clot retention) CBS: chronic brain syndrome: CC cc: cubic centimeter (use ml instead—see the list of ...

  6. Preputioplasty - Wikipedia

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    Preputioplasty or prepuce plasty, also known as limited dorsal slit with transverse closure, is a plastic surgical operation on the prepuce or foreskin of the penis, [1] to widen a narrow non-retractile foreskin which cannot comfortably be drawn back off the head of the penis in erection because of a constriction which has not expanded after adolescence.

  7. Glans penis - Wikipedia

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    Anatomical terminology [ edit on Wikidata ] In male human anatomy , the glans penis or penile glans , [ 1 ] commonly referred to as the glans , ( / ɡ l æ n z / ; from Latin glans meaning "acorn") [ 2 ] is the bulbous structure at the distal end of the human penis that is the human male's most sensitive erogenous zone and primary anatomical ...

  8. Glossary of medicine - Wikipedia

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    Definitive treatmentMedical treatment generally accepted as most appropriate for the condition. Deltoid muscle – is the muscle forming the rounded contour of the human shoulder . Anatomically, it appears to be made up of three distinct sets of fibers though electromyography suggests that it consists of at least seven groups that can be ...

  9. Human penis - Wikipedia

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    Phimosis is an inability to retract the foreskin fully. It is normal and harmless in infancy and pre-pubescence, occurring in about 8% of boys at age 10. According to the British Medical Association, treatment (topical steroid cream and/or manual stretching) does not need to be considered until age 19.