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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Foreskin |
 | | The information provided should not be used during any medical emergency or for the diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition. | | | The foreskin is the portion of tissue that is removed during circumcision. | | | The foreskin is also known as the prepuce. |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/9189.htm
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| | Jewish Circumcision Resource Center |
| | The rabbis of the time decided to change the requirements of the procedure so that a circumcised male could not possibly be altered to appear uncircumcised. | | | During the Hellenistic period, many young Jews concealed their circumcision by drawing their foreskins forward. | | | According to the Encyclopedia Judaica, "any child born of a Jewish mother is a Jew, whether circumcised or not." This restrictive definition is based on Orthodox belief. |
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http://www.jewishcircumcision.org/info.htm
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| | Holistic Health Encyclopedia - B |
| | Documented effects include treatment of scurvy, venereal eruptions, leprosy, and other cankerous skin conditions. | | | Extensive burns or burns causing more than minor discomfort should be treated by a healthcare professional. | | | A penis that is concealed by scarring of the residual foreskin over the head of the penis. |
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http://www.myholistic.com/glossary/B.php3
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| | Islam - Free Encyclopedia |
| | Circumcision for males involves the removal of the foreskin and is customary in most Muslim communities. | | | Most Muslim scholars have based the amount of covering that a female Muslim must wear in front of those that are considered non-mahram (people she can marry) men on the Qur'an and the Sunnah. |
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http://www.wacklepedia.com/i/is/islam_1.html
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| | Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of the Bible |
| | But Zipporah, his wife, took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched his feet with it, and said 'Truly you are a bridegroom of blood to me!' So he let him alone. | | | It was then she said, 'A bridegroom of blood by circumcision.'" | | | 4:25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. |
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http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/bible.html
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