Meanings
- medicineA surgically constructed glans penis.
Tumours of the glans penis can be managed by performing a glansectomy and reconstruction of a neoglans using a split skin graft.
2010, M. Arya, Viva Practice for the FRCS(Urol) Examination, Radcliffe Publishing, →ISBN, page 72 - medicineA surgically constructed clitoral glans.
The healthy cavernosum tissue of the future neoglans is then exposed.
2015, Franco Anglana, Pietro Lippa, Serena Ronca, Ariadna Cassaude, Atlas of Vulvar dermatosis and dermatitis, CIC Edizioni Internazionali, →ISBN, page 4001 more example
Clitoral reconstruction is a relatively new surgical technique which implies the resectioning of the scar covering the clitoral stump, sectioning the suspensory ligament, removing the fibrosis surrounding the mobilized stump, and repositioning it as a neoglans.
2017, L. Catania et al., Female Genital Mutilations, collected in Good Practice in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, ed. Anna Maria Fulghesu, Springer, page 188
Origin
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