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A summary the steps of prepuce development as described by Hunter in 1935. The drawings resemble and illustrate the observations of the foetal penis at different gestational age, depicting that the prepuce is a gradually growing structure during embryogenesis.

The three images (A, B, C) show the overall continuous change of the prepuce.

  • A - describes the penis with an undeveloped prepuce and a fully exposed penis glans.
  • B - Shows the developing prepuce layer, that begins to cover the glans penis posteriorly, forming folds due to its rapid rate of growth.
  • C - By this stage, the epithelial cells have migrated forming a superficial layer that covers the entire glans penis. This is penis-type observed at birth.

This diagram is an adaptation from [1]

Reference

  1. <pubmed>17104576</pubmed>

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