What's the difference between akroposthion and prepuce?

Akroposthion


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Prepuce


Definition:

  • (n.) The foreskin.

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  • (1) Urethroplasty was carried out with pedicle skin of prepuce in 6 patients with the hypospadias since Feb 1987.
  • (2) No Campylobacter fetus organisms were identified from the prepuce or from samples of semen collected at the same time from these bulls.
  • (3) In the seven bulls, no macroscopic changes were seen, but a slight infiltration of lymphocytes and formation of lymph nodules were noticed in the prepuce.
  • (4) It appears that in the Mersey Region many boys are circumcised for development non-retractability of the prepuce rather than for true phimosis and that in consequence some two-thirds of the operations are unnecessary.
  • (5) The mass was enclosed in the prepuce and adherent to its skin and there was no enlargement of the clitoris itself.
  • (6) Electron microscopic examination of ultrathin sections and freeze-etched and shadow cast preparations of a bovine prepuce isolate of Campylobacter fetus VC119 showed an S layer with subunits in an apparent linear arrangement.
  • (7) Labial strains overlapped nongenital strains of either sex more frequently than did prepuce strains.
  • (8) The organism was isolated from the prepuce in 30% of normal boys and 32% of those with balanitis.
  • (9) Mild forms of hypospadias in the age group 1--4 years had a higher level of 5alpha-reductase activity in the prepuce than controls in the same age group (P less than 0.05); no such differences were found in the few severe cases of hypospadias in this group.
  • (10) Of these 300 cases, (66.7%) had redundant prepuce and 78 (26.0%) had phimosis which implies that penile tumors are closely related to those two conditions.
  • (11) Few cases have been reported of the initial and exclusive involvement of Kaposi's angiosarcoma of the glans penis and prepuce.
  • (12) The boys nearly always presented with inability to retract the prepuce; half also had discomfort after micturition, and a quarter had obstructive signs, usually minor.
  • (13) Isolates for which Fc binding was not detectable were recovered only from the prepuces of asymptomatic bulls.
  • (14) Formation of a mucosal collar from the inner surface of the prepuce offers the surgeon who performs hypospadias repairs the opportunity to create a cosmetically normal-appearing phallus.
  • (15) Cell cultures of monkey prepuce (Rhfs) and African green monkey kidney (BSC-1) were infected once with simian Mason-Pfizer virus (MPV) and virus expression in the course of establishment of chronic infection was studied.
  • (16) Seven additional operations were done mainly for prepuce correction and closure of fistula after urethroplasty.
  • (17) E. coli strains isolated from sources outside the gastro-intestinal tract, that is the prepuce and female peri-urethral region, were in breast-fed babies less sensitive than faecal strains.
  • (18) In the majority they transferred a double flap ("double face") where the outer sheath of the prepuce was used to cover the ventral side of the penis.
  • (19) Parents of newborns with hypospadias and a complete prepuce should be told, before circumcision, that preputial tissues may be needed to repair the hypospadias.
  • (20) We report a case of free transplantation of the prepuce derived from a monozygotic twin to aid in the reconstruction of penoscrotal hypospadias in his brother.

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