| redundant | 1. Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. "Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh." (Arbuthnot) 2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic. "Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched." (I. Watts) Synonym: Superfluous, superabundant, excessive, exuberant, overflowing, plentiful, copious. Origin: L. Redundans, -antis, p. Pr. Of redundare: cf. F. Redondant. See Redound. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| prepuce | <anatomy> A covering fold of skin, often used alone to designate the preputium penis. (31 Dec 1997) |
| prepuce of clitoris | <anatomy> The external fold of the labia minora, forming a cap over the clitoris. Synonym: preputium clitoridis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hooded prepuce | Incomplete circumferential formation of foreskin with a dorsal component (the dorsal hood) but an absent or incomplete ventral portion. Typically seen in boys with hypospadias or isolated chordee. In the rare condition of epispadias, the hooded portional prepuce may be ventral. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frenulum of prepuce | A fold of mucous membrane passing from the undersurface of the glans penis to the deep surface of the prepuce. Synonym: frenulum preputii, vinculum preputii. (05 Mar 2000) |