单词 | smegma |
释义 | smegman. Physiology. A sebaceous secretion, esp. that found under the prepuce. Phillips (ed. Kersey, 1706), Bailey, etc., give ‘Smegma, soap, or any thing that scours; a wash-ball’, but there is no evidence that the word was ever current in English in these senses. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > sebum > [noun] smegma1813 sebacinea1836 sebum1877 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Smegma,..soap. Any concrete substance resembling it, as the hardened matter often found, in the morning, on the lachrymal caruncle. 1877 L. A. Duhring Pract. Treat. Dis. Skin 108 In the newly-born infant..the smegma serves a valuable physiological function. 1899 J. Cagney tr. R. von Jaksch Clin. Diagnosis (ed. 4) 407 The microbe of smegma readily loses its colour under the action of that substance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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