Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In medicine, strangulation of the glans penis owing to the opening of the prepuce being too narrow to allow the prepuce to be drawn from behind the glans: correlated with phimosis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again.

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  • noun A medical condition where the foreskin becomes trapped behind the glans.

Etymologies

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para- +‎ phimosis

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Examples

  • And after seeing all the problems with uncircumcized males during my time working in Africa, (phimosis, paraphimosis, balanitis, cancer) one can see it has advantages, especially in dry climates where dust gets in tender areas ...

    Medpundit 2006

  • As rare as paraphimosis is, it is even rarer that a child would have to be circumcised to resolve it.

    Neonatal Circumcision (Controversy? Who, Moi?) 1 Dinosaur 2007

  • Adult circumcision required urgently or emergently for things like phimosis (a "stuck" foreskin that can't be retracted) or a paraphimosis (a foreskin stuck in the retracted position) is a huge undertaking compared to the two minute procedure for a neonate.

    Archive 2007-06-01 1 Dinosaur 2007

  • Adult circumcision required urgently or emergently for things like phimosis (a "stuck" foreskin that can't be retracted) or a paraphimosis (a foreskin stuck in the retracted position) is a huge undertaking compared to the two minute procedure for a neonate.

    Neonatal Circumcision (Controversy? Who, Moi?) 1 Dinosaur 2007

  • "You gave him a paraphimosis," she said, only without the benefit of hyperlinkage.

    Two penis anecdotes from the hallowed halls Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • "You gave him a paraphimosis," she said, only without the benefit of hyperlinkage.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • He alleged that he had made several unsuccessful attempts to enter her, and in doing so had caused paraphimosis.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • He alleged that he had made several unsuccessful attempts to enter her, and in doing so had caused paraphimosis.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • -- Fabricius Hildanus mentions a curious case of paraphimosis caused by violent coitus with a virgin who had an extremely narrow vagina.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • -- Fabricius Hildanus * [334] mentions a curious case of paraphimosis caused by violent coitus with a virgin who had an extremely narrow vagina.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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  • Like in phimosis, an unfortunate preputial condition. However, here the prepuce is retracted, and will not close over the glans again, in some cases shrinking and strangulating the penis.

    April 13, 2007

  • Usage on balanoposthitis.

    April 1, 2009