Prepuce
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Prepuce is the double invagination of the skin which contains and covers the free portion of penis, when not erect.
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It covers the body of the penis behind the glans, when the penis is erect.
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Preputial orifice is the external opening of the prepuce.
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Preputial lining is a freely movable membrane or modified skin which is attached firmly only at glans penis and preputial orifice.
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![Ideal preputial sheath Ideal preputial sheath](http://www.elearnvet.net/moodle//file.php/78/Lesson_21/Ideal_preputial_sheath.jpg)
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The structural faults in the prepuce leads to injury to breeding organs and loss of bull use.
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Common structural faults of the prepuce are
- Poor attachment to the body in the navel region
- These defects leads to injury, infection, prolapse of prepuce. So the bull cannot be used for semen collection.
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![Undesirable_sheath Undesirable_sheath](http://14.139.56.154:82/file.php/189/Lesson_21/Undesirable_sheath.jpg)
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Palpation of the prepuce allows one to determine whether or not adhesions are present.
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A fibrotic preputial orifice may become strictured enough to increase the risk of phimosis or paraphimosis
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Last modified: Monday, 11 June 2012, 11:52 AM