balanitis

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Krafft-Ebing in excluding from the category of sexual paradoxy those cases in which sexual excitement is caused solely by peripheral inflammatory stimuli, balanitis (inflammation of the glans penis), threadworms, and the like.

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  • Eleven AEs occurred at a higher incidence in the non-exposed group for which the 95 percent confidence intervals around the between-group difference excluded 0 and were as follows: bradycardia, goiter, change in bowel habit, blood glucose decrease, blood glucose increase, weight increase, hyperglycaemia, sinus headache, prostatitis, balanitis, hyperkeratosis2. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • An expert looks at circumcision, phimosis, paraphimosis and balanitis.
  • If a boy's penis is swollen and red, if you cannot retract the foreskin, or if there is a greenish discharge from the penis (an indication of balanitis, an inflammation between the tip of the glans penis and the foreskin)
  • In this manner a simple elongation of the prepuce will produce an inflammation of the surface of the glans (balanitis), or that of the prepuce itself (posthitis), or the two conjoined (balano-posthitis), complicated possibly with phimosis. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
  • At page 216 he says: "Such is the condition which the parts present in cases of recent balanitis, and these are the inflammations and ulcerations that cause more or less extensive adhesions of the prepuce to the glans. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
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  1. New Latin, from Greek βάλανος, acorn, glans penis, + -itis.
 

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