FORESKIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foreskin mean? 

• FORESKIN (noun)
  The noun FORESKIN has 2 senses:

1. a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris

2. a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis

  Familiarity information: FORESKIN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORESKIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

foreskin; prepuce

Hypernyms ("foreskin" is a kind of...):

cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)

Holonyms ("foreskin" is a part of...):

button; clit; clitoris (a female sexual organ homologous to the penis)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A fold of skin covering the tip of the penis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

foreskin; prepuce

Hypernyms ("foreskin" is a kind of...):

cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)

Holonyms ("foreskin" is a part of...):

member; penis; phallus (the male sex organ ('member' is a euphemism))

 Context examples 

Retraction of phimotic foreskin, causing a painful swelling of the glans that, if severe, may cause dry gangrene unless corrected.

(Paraphimosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Surgical removal of the penile foreskin.

(Male Circumcision, NCI Thesaurus)

Phimosis that develops in an uncircumcised male with a previously loose foreskin.

(Acquired Phimosis, NCI Thesaurus)