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“Phimosis” is not a “stuck foreskin” it is a foreskin that is non-retractile because the foreskin opening or sphincter is not elastic.
Neonatal Circumcision (Controversy? Who, Moi?) 1 Dinosaur 2007
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Consideration sur le Phimosis et Operation de la Circoncision par un procédé nouveau.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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Phimosis, either congenital or acquired, is an exceedingly common accompaniment, and it appears probable that the irritation occasioned by this condition of the parts may act as an exciting cause of the disease in persons predisposed to cancer.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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Phimosis is said to be congenital or natural and acquired.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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Phimosis is an ancient attendant on our inheritance of the prepuce, we being, in fact, born with it; this is the rule.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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Phimosis in childhood is generally considered a physiological state, only to be taken as a pathological condition under certain circumstances.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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Phimosis is known to have been a cause of male impotence by its direct interference with the outward flow of the seminal fluid; but, although we have cases where impregnation has taken place by the aid of a warm spoon and a warm syringe, as in the case related in a former chapter, it must be admitted that the corona is not without some functional office in the act of procreation.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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Phimosis and the consequent balanitis lead to cancer of the penis ....
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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Phimosis is developmentally normal up through puberty as the foreskin doesn't need to restract until then.
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Phimosis in the older teen or adult can be cured with stretching exercises and masturbation in the conventional sense.
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