Phimosis

Definition: Phimosis

Phimosis

Noun

1. An abnormal tightness of the foreskin preventing retraction over the glans.

Etymology: Phimosis \Phi*mo"sis\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression muzzling, from muzzle.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Phimosis

Domain	Definitions
Health	The inability to retract the foreskin over the glans penis due to tightness of the prepuce. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Phimosis

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Phimosis is a condition in which the male foreskin cannot be fully retracted. Phimosis is not a disease. Phimosis is the normal developmental condition in young boys.

It is entirely normal for the prepuce to be adherent to the glans in babies, and for the prepuce to not fully retract in young boys. Premature retraction, which is extremely painful, can cause permanent damage to the glans and ridged band, and is also the primary cause of infection in this area. As a boy grows to sexual maturity the prepuce normally becomes retractable. About 44 percent of boys have a fully retractile foreskin by age 10.

Many studies show that phimosis may be inexpensively treated medically without surgery by the application of topical steroid ointment to the narrow part of the foreskin.[1] Circumcision, which formerly was the treatment of choice, is rapidly becoming outmoded.

Teen-age boys may treat a non-retractile foreskin by the Beaugé method.[1] The Beaugé method provides tissue expansion by stretching to permanently relieve the narrowness that prevents retraction.

Non-Fiction Usage: Phimosis

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Circumcision may be required for patients with phimosis and balanitis. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Phimosis

"Phimosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Phimosis" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	8	124,375

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Phimosis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
phimosis	175
phimosis picture	16
phimosis photo	6
phimosis treatment	6
foreskin phimosis	4
image phimosis	3
cure phimosis	3
doctor phimosis	3
boy phimosis	2
adult phimosis	2
clitoral phimosis	2
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Modern Translations: Phimosis

Language		Translations for "phimosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		forhudsforsnaevring. (various references)

Dutch		fimosis. (various references)

French		phimosis. (various references)

German		Phimose, Kapistration, Capistratio. (various references)

Greek		φίμωση (gagging). (various references)

Italian		fimosi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		包莖 , 包茎 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほうけい (square). (various references)

Manx		chennid chymmyltey. (various references)

Pig Latin		imosisphay

Portuguese		fimose. (various references)

Romanian		fimozã. (various references)

Spanish		fimosis. (various references)
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Rhyming with "Phimosis"

Words rhyming with "phimosis" (pronounced 'Phi*mo"sis'): Absis, Actinomycosis, Adenosclerosis, AEsthesis, Agennesis, Albuminosis, Amanuensis, Amaurosis, Amitosis, Ampelopsis, Amphiarthrosis, Anacoenosis, Anacrusis, Anadiplosis, Anaesthesis, Anamnesis, Anastomosis, Anemosis, Angioneurosis, Antanaclasis, Anthesis, Anthracosis, Antiptosis, Antipyresis, Antisepsis, Aponeurosis, Aposiopesis, apsis, Archebiosis, Arsis, Arteriosclerosis, Arthrosis, Asepsis, Athetosis, Autokinesis, Auxesis, Basis, Biognosis, Calliopsis, Cardiosclerosis, Cariopsis, Caryopsis, Catachresis, Chemosis, Chlorosis, Chromidrosis, Cillosis, Cirrhosis, Classis, Coenesthesis. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Phimosis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-i-i-m-o-p-s-s"
	-1 letter: sophism.
	-2 letters: impish, miosis, mopish.
	-3 letters: impis, misos, pisos, shims, ships, shops, simps, sophs.
	-4 letters: hips, hiss, hops, impi, imps, isms, mhos, miso, miss, mops, mosh, moss, ohms, phis, pish, piso, piss, pois, poms, posh, psis, shim, ship, shmo, shop, simp, sims, sips, soph, sops.
	-5 letters: him, hip, his, hop, imp, ism, mho, mis, mop.
	Words containing the letters "h-i-i-m-o-p-s-s"
	+3 letters: dimorphisms, hemopoiesis, isomorphism, morphinisms.
	+4 letters: diastrophism, impoverishes, isomorphisms, microphysics, monitorships, phonemicists, postischemic.
	+5 letters: championships, diastrophisms, heliotropisms, hematopoiesis, hemimorphisms, impoverishers, misanthropies, necrophilisms, parochialisms, photoemission, photoemissive, physiognomies, physostigmine, seismographic.
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