paraphimosis

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-- Fabricius Hildanus mentions a curious case of paraphimosis caused by violent coitus with a virgin who had an extremely narrow vagina.

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  1. In medicine, strangulation of the glans penis owing to the opening of the prepuce being too narrow to allow the prepuce to be drawn from behind the glans: correlated with phimosis.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek παραφίμωσις, a disorder of the penis, from παρά, beyond, beside, + φίμωσις, a stopping up of an orifice, from φιμοῦν, muzzle.
 

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