Prepuce

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

Ideal preputial sheath

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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

  • 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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Moderately_acceptable Undesirable_sheath

  • 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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Last modified: Monday, 11 June 2012, 11:52 AM