phimosis

• It sounds like you have phimosis, a condition where the foreskin progressively gets tighter. —  mirror.co.uk - Home
• An expert looks at circumcision, phimosis, paraphimosis and balanitis.
• Its effectual absence in so many cases evidently belongs to some evolutionary process, and shows beyond question that nature does not insist on its presence either as a necessity or as an ornament The word or term "phimosis" is derived from two Greek roots, signifying "string" and "to tighten," or "to tie with a string." —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
• We are then in what many term a state of physiological phimosis, that being a perfectly natural condition, and one consistent with health; at least, we imagine it is normal 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
• Wadd at this time also published a work on the subject, but, although he noticed that phimosis was a cause of cancer, he did not fully grasp the subject as Hey and Roux had done, as he believed a cancerous diathesis a primary necessity, and did not then recognize that the primary cause was fully to be found in the prepuce itself Roux was probably the first to point out the peculiarly local character of penile cancer, as there is no locality wherein a timely operation is less apt to be followed by a recurrence. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance

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