What's the difference between foreskin and phimosis?
Foreskin
Definition:
(n.) The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the second comparison, HSV was isolated from 225 of 1,026 (21.9%) specimens and duplicate human foreskin fibroblast cell wells stained at 24 and 72 h were PAP positive in 241 of 1,026 (23.5%).
(2) Human melanocyte cultures were established using disaggregated epidermal cell suspensions derived from foreskins and plated onto culture dishes in medium containing 2% fetal bovine serum, growth factors, hormones, and melanocyte growth factor (MGF) extracted from bovine hypothalamus (Wilkins et al., J.Cell.
(3) We have examined the proteolytic processing of radiolabeled epidermal growth factor (EGF) in EGF growth-responsive human foreskin fibroblasts (HFF) versus EGF nonresponsive human fetal lung fibroblasts (HFL).
(4) Over 95% of attributable risk in men with STD was either genital ulceration or the presence of a foreskin.
(5) A penile problem that physicians are confronted with in the emergency room is entrapment of the foreskin by a zipper fastener.
(6) In this study we have found that NK activity of fresh splenocytes measured against HSV-2 infected human foreskin fibroblast (HFF) is stimulated in vitro and in vivo by rIL 2 in a biphasic dose range similar to that determined for protection against disease.
(7) Interferons produced in human peripheral leukocytes (LE) and foreskin fibroblast (FS-4) cells were subjected to affinity chromatography on Sepharose-bound globulins from rabbits immunized with these interferons.
(8) In contrast, infection of human primary chondrocyte cells (C23), synovial cells (HSA), and foreskin fibroblasts (F13) was apparently independent of cell CD4-mediated mechanisms.
(9) We studied the effects of various immunologic and inflammatory mediators on the expression of the class II major histocompatibility antigens, HLA-DR and DQ in short-term organ cultures of newborn human foreskin.
(10) Specific antibody-mediated neutralization of infectious human papillomavirus type 11 (HPV-11) was achieved in the athymic mouse xenograft system, in which HPV-11 induced morphological transformation of human foreskin.
(11) To study the synthesis of the EBA antigen, cultured human keratinocytes and fibroblasts, derived from neonatal foreskins, were metabolically labeled with 14C-labeled amino acids.
(12) Nevertheless, because of the need for a scrotal flap of fat to prevent fistula formation and to ensure vascularization of the graft, and because of the availability of a vascularized flap from the foreskin in most cases, the free graft patch procedure is best reserved for cases in which the foreskin is either absent or deficient.
(13) Normal thyrocytes were cultured with either mitomycin C-treated endothelial cells or mitomycin C-treated human foreskin fibroblasts.
(14) Despite the vogue for conservatism, circumcision still has an important part to play in the management of troublesome foreskins in children.
(15) One hundred consecutive cases of boys with foreskin problems referred to local paediatric surgeons in the Edinburgh area were studied.
(16) Cytokeratin expression in differentiating cultured foreskin keratinocytes was studied using chain-specific anti-cytokeratin monoclonal antibodies directed against cytokeratins 4, 8, 10, 13, 18, and 19, respectively.
(17) The protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor staurosporine was found to dramatically alter the actin microfilament cytoskeleton of a variety of cultured cells, including PTK2 epithelial cells, Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts, and human foreskin fibroblasts.
(18) Experiments probing the mechanism by which glucocorticoids modulate cell proliferation were carried out on serum-free cell cultures of quiescent human diploid foreskin (HF) cells.
(19) In contrast, DNA synthesis in keratinocytes derived from neonatal foreskins was consistently suppressed by retinoic acid, independent of the polyamine status.
(20) Normal diploid foreskin fibroblasts and a histiocytic lymphoma cell line were deprived of CABLA production.
Phimosis
Definition:
(n.) A condition of the penis in which the prepuce can not be drawn back so as to uncover the glans penis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of 140 boys coming to day-case elective circumcision between the ages of 3 months and 14 years (mean 4.3 years), the commonest cause was a congenital phimosis (42.8%).
(2) This well-defined entity usually presents as acquired sclerous phimosis.
(3) 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.
(4) 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.
(5) According to the birth rate and the rate of extrauterine gestation, microsurgery gives the best results in the correction of filmy adhesions, fimbrial phimosis and proximal tubal occlusion.
(6) Phimosis, Bowen's disease and venereal diseases seemed to bear a close etiologic relationship to the penile carcinoma.
(7) All 117 boys circumcized for phimosis during one year at the Department of Pediatric Surgery in Lund were subject to a follow-up study five years postoperatively.
(8) Management of phimosis without operation is a possible alternative option for balanitis problems in certain circumstances.
(9) A follow-up study including all boys (n = 117) operated with circumcision for phimosis during 1976 was performed.
(10) Penile cancer is associated with smoking independently of phimosis; treatment of phimosis alone does not remove the risk caused by smoking.
(11) In addition, laparoscopy revealed 57 cases of periadnexal adhesions and 13 cases of fimbrial phimosis in patients with tubal patency, while hysterosalpingography revealed only 4 cases of periadnexal adhesions.
(12) Clinically, the two conditions were indistinguishable and presented as severe, nonretractable phimosis.
(13) The 4 V-flap technique for repair of preputial stenosis meets a need for an alternative to circumcision in the repair of phimosis.
(14) A 45-year-old heterosexual man presented with phimosis three weeks after arriving in this country from India.
(15) In males the major diseases were prostatitis, upper urinary tract stone, benign prostatic hypertrophy, balanoposthitis, phimosis and in females they were cystitis, upper urinary tract stone, pyelonephritis, renoptosis and neurogenic bladder.
(16) In 150 patients we did not see a postoperative hemorrhage or recurrence of the phimosis.
(17) Strongly related to risk were conditions restricting the motility of the foreskin, including phimosis or paraphimosis, particularly when so severe that circumcision was used for treatment.
(18) The metabolism of 4-[1,2-3H]androstene-3,17-dione in the prepuce, axillary skin and skin from the arm was investigated in 27 boys operated for phimosis (controls) and 13 unselected boys with hypospadias (a congenital defect of the male urethra).
(19) In the examined family the proband, a 14 months old male, presented a bilateral anophthalmos, bilateral cryptorchism, phimosis and decalcification of the nails.
(20) The possibility of upper urinary tract involvement must be considered in patients with true phimosis and dysuria.