Veterinary Andrology and Reproductive Techniques

PREPUCE

• Prepuce is the double invagination of the skin which contains and covers the free portion of penis, when not erect.
• It covers the body of the penis behind the glans, when the penis is erect.
• Preputial orifice is the external opening of the prepuce.
• Preputial lining is a freely movable membrane or modified skin which is attached firmly only at glans penis and preputial orifice.

• The ideal preputial sheath should be as follows

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• The structural faults in the prepuce leads to injury to breeding organs and loss of bull use.
• Common structural faults of the prepuce are

• Pendulous and loosely attached sheath
• Protruding prepuce

• 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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• Palpation of the prepuce allows one to determine whether or not adhesions are present.
• A fibrotic preputial orifice may become strictured enough to increase the risk of phimosis or paraphimosis

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