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Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Topic Options #147396 - 09/05/05 05:56 PM balanoposthitis zmjezhd zmjezhd Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 1679 Loc: R'lyeh Balanoposthitis is the inflammation of the glans penis and the foreskin in uncircumsized males. The word was coined from two roots and an affix: Gk βαλανος (balanos; cf. L glans, glandis, Russian жёлудь (zhjolud') 'acorn; glans penis' fr. PIE *gwel- 'oak'), Gk ποσθη (posthe) 'membrum virile; prepuce', -itis ISV 'inflammation of'. May be caused by phimosis, or an abnormal tightness of the foreskin preventing retraction over the glans. Phimosis is from Gk φιμωσις (phimosis) 'muzzling, silencing; stopping up of an orifice; contraction of the prepuce' fr φιμος (phimos) 'muzzle'. Top #147397 - 09/05/05 10:12 PM Re: balanoposthitis Sparteye Sparteye Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 1763 I think you just made every man on this board cross his legs. Top #147398 - 09/06/05 06:04 AM Re: balanoposthitis consuelo consuelo Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/11/01 Posts: 2630 Loc: Caribbean And a few others to say "Put a muzzle on that, Bub." Top #147399 - 09/06/05 08:39 AM Re: balanoposthitis zmjezhd zmjezhd Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 1679 Loc: R'lyeh Oh, dear; oh, my. And, I was gonna link to a medical article with pitchers and everything. (See; I do have some restraint.) Top #147400 - 09/06/05 09:10 AM Re: balanoposthitis AnnaStrophic AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6417 Loc: lower upstate New York And, I was gonna link to a medical article with pitchers and everything. That should be "pitchers n everthang," Buster. Oh, and thanks for the restraint. Top #147401 - 09/06/05 09:59 AM restraint Sparteye Sparteye Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 1763 Perhaps the snugness of the restraint is causing the malady? Try something which breathes better than imitation leather. Top #147402 - 09/06/05 10:05 AM Re: imitatio vitae zmjezhd zmjezhd Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 1679 Loc: R'lyeh imitation leather Heavens to Naugahyde®! Top #147403 - 09/06/05 12:52 PM Re: imitatio vitae consuelo consuelo Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/11/01 Posts: 2630 Loc: Caribbean Is that your vinyl answer? And shouldn't that be genuine imitation leather, Sparteye? Top #147404 - 09/06/05 03:49 PM balano-whatever wofahulicodoc wofahulicodoc Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 1869 Loc: Worcester, MA I've only heard it simplified to "balanitis," meaning glans and prepuce both, even from urologists. Unless of course they're just simplifying it for benefit of hoi polloi. How about it? Any urologists lurking out there? What say you? Top #147405 - 09/07/05 01:06 PM Re: scions of life zmjezhd zmjezhd Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 1679 Loc: R'lyeh I meant to mention that a couple of historical characters are associated with phimosis: Louis XVI and Charles Guiteau (Garfield's assassin). Louis married Marie Antoinette when he was 15 and she 14. The marriage remained unconsummated until 7 years later owing to a genital deformation, usually considered phimosis, which was however corrected with minor surgery, perhaps circumcision. Top Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Previous Topic   Index   Next Topic   Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. 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