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Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Topic Options #147396 - 09/05/05 05:56 PM balanoposthitis zmjezhd Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 2466 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 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 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/11/01 Posts: 2631 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 Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 2466 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 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6489 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 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 Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 2466 Loc: R'lyeh imitation leather Heavens to Naugahyde®! Top #147403 - 09/06/05 12:52 PM Re: imitatio vitae consuelo Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/11/01 Posts: 2631 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 Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 2306 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 Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 2466 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. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 7255 Members 16 Forums 12810 Topics 189668 Posts Max Online: 853 @ 10/23/07 11:39 AM Who's Online 1 registered (tsuwm), 10 Guests and 22 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Newest Members jincy crow, aml, Goodspeaker, W1343, lgroner 7255 Registered Users Top Posters wwh 13858 Faldage 12529 Jackie 10392 tsuwm 9573 Buffalo Shrdlu 6690 AnnaStrophic 6489 Wordwind 6296 of troy 5400 maverick 4683 WhitmanO'Neill 4189 March Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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