What's the difference between glans and prepuce?

Glans


Definition:

  • (n.) The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis, and the extremity of the clitoris.
  • (n.) The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.
  • (n.) Goiter.
  • (n.) A pessary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The two halves of the glans are brought to the midline, thus covering the glanular urethra, and producing a normal appearing glans.
  • (2) In 1980, Dr. Rubin stated that preservation of the glans to reconstruct the clitoris in male-to-female sex reassignment surgery gave good cosmetic and functional results.
  • (3) The accessory urethra lay dorsal from the glans to bladder neck in parallel with the normal ventral urethra.
  • (4) Yang Feng Glan is accused of smuggling 706 elephant tusks worth £1.62m from Tanzania to the far east.
  • (5) Superficial lesions of the glans penis can pose diagnostic difficulties.
  • (6) In the remaining 46 patients leak sites visualized during cavernosography included superficial dorsal vein in 1 (2.2%), deep dorsal vein in all 46 (100%), cavernous veins in 32 (69.6%), glans in 19 (41.3%) and corpus spongiosum in 14 (30.4%).
  • (7) Additional deep perforating arteries from the dorsal penile artery and corporal vessels supply the glans and subcoronal region.
  • (8) In 26 patients endoscopic-radiologic pancreography routinely performed caused severe pain with certain origin from pancreatic glan.
  • (9) This procedure incorporates correction of chordee, distal urethral mobilization and glans plasty in patients with coronal or distal subcoronal hypospadias.
  • (10) The abundance of FNEs in isolated as well as corpuscular form can be correlated with the embryogenesis and known neurophysiologic and psychophysical parameters of sensory function of the glans penis.
  • (11) These flat micro-lesions can also be found on the vulva, vaginal walls and on the glans and, balano-preputial area and shaft in males, the distal urethra, anus, larynx (especially the vocal cords), the mouth and oesophagus.
  • (12) The glans of the megaloclitoris is obliquely reduced in size at its base toward the ventral surface and by resection of up to two-thirds of the ventral segment.
  • (13) The onset of puberty was determined by monitoring the separation of the preputium from the glans penis, i.e.
  • (14) EQ (erythroplasia of Queyrat) manifests itself by single or multiple asymptomatic papules or plaques on the glans penis, or periurethrally, predominantly in uncircumcised men, age range from twenty to eighty years of age.
  • (15) Anatomical examination of the ventral bulbospongiosus (BS) muscle suggested that its proximal and distal portions may act during penile erection as a two-stage pump governing the intensity of glans erections.
  • (16) A form-fitting glans condom has been developed for use in small uncircumcised males with neurogenic bladders to avoid the problems inherent with diapers.
  • (17) For several years the patient had been treated for balanitis and inflammation of the glans.
  • (18) The pressure variations exerted on the glans during coitus by the perivaginal musculature are sufficient to induce reflex contractions of the ischiocavernosus muscles, promoting penile rigidity.
  • (19) Baclofen treatment decreased the number of males responding with glans erections within the 30 min latency limit, and significantly reduced the number of glans erections displayed, in a dose-dependent manner.
  • (20) Few cases have been reported of the initial and exclusive involvement of Kaposi's angiosarcoma of the glans penis and prepuce.

Prepuce


Definition:

  • (n.) The foreskin.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.