A dorsal slit (often referred to in anthropology as superincision or supercision) is a single incision along the upper length of the foreskin from the tip to the corona, exposing the glans without removing any tissue. An ancient practice,[1] it has been a traditional custom among a number of peoples, particularly Filipinos and Pacific Islanders, probably for thousands of years.
In Western medicine, it was used as an alternative to circumcision to relieve conditions such as failure of the foreskin to retract (phimosis) or failure to cover the glans penis (paraphimosis), although a perception of poor appearance limited its popularity. While it is a less invasive surgery than circumcision, it is more invasive than preputioplasty since it leaves the incision open. It is still used when circumcision or other measures are considered impractical or undesirable.[citation needed]
^Christianakis E (March 2008). "Sutureless prepuceplasty with wound healing by second intention: an alternative surgical approach in children's phimosis treatment". BMC Urology. 8: 6. doi:10.1186/1471-2490-8-6. PMC 2311323. PMID 18318903.
A dorsalslit (often referred to in anthropology as superincision or supercision) is a single incision along the upper length of the foreskin from the...
the tight edematous band of tissue can be relieved surgically with a dorsalslit, or a circumcision. An alternative method, the Dundee technique, entails...
Preputioplasty or prepuce plasty, also known as limited dorsalslit with transverse closure, is a plastic surgical operation on the prepuce or foreskin...
the foreskin to more minor operations to relieve foreskin tightness: Dorsalslit (superincision) is a single incision along the upper length of the foreskin...
using one of three open surgical methods. The forceps-guided method, the dorsalslit method, and the sleeve resection method are well described by the World...
practitioner then places the circumcision device (this sometimes requires a dorsalslit), which remains until blood flow has stopped. Finally, the foreskin is...
only ray species that have evolved into filter feeders. Manta rays have dorsalslit-like spiracles, traits which they share with the devil fish and Chilean...
Pharyngeal slits are filter-feeding organs found among deuterostomes. Pharyngeal slits are repeated openings that appear along the pharynx caudal to the...
notochord, a post-anal tail, an endostyle, and pharyngeal slits. The dorsal nerve cord is located dorsal to the notochord and thus also to the gut tube (hence...
Gill slits are individual openings to gills, i.e., multiple gill arches, which lack a single outer cover. Such gills are characteristic of cartilaginous...
A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates within various taxa of the animal kingdom. Many species of animals...
in chondrichthyes as follows. The five synapomorphies are pharyngeal slit, dorsal nerve cord, notochord, endostyle, and the post-anal-tail which is depicted...
five synapomorphies are a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, an endostyle or thyroid, pharyngeal slits, and a post-anal tail. The name "chordate" comes...
sharks in the family Orectolobidae. Carpet sharks have five gill slits, two spineless dorsal fins, and a small mouth that does not extend past the eyes. Many...
vertebrates typically develop in the walls of the pharynx, along a series of gill slits opening to the exterior. Most species employ a counter-current exchange...
with a unique series of dorsal finlets which vary in number from seven to 18, instead of a single dorsal fin. Each of the dorsal finlets has bifid (double-edged)...
slits on the ventral (belly) side. Males have two slits, one concealing the penis and one further behind for the anus. Females have one genital slit,...
former diver John Crowe told how all five of the orcas had their abdomens slit open and filled with rocks, their tails weighted down with anchors and chains...
movement by pectoral fins with a mainly stiff body, opposed sculling with dorsal and anal fins, as in the sunfish; and movement by propagating a wave along...
animal. It contains the pharynx, which is perforated with gill slits (or pharyngeal slits), the oesophagus, a long intestine, and a terminal anus. It also...
be dorso-ventrally flattened, and they usually have five pairs of gill slits and a large mouth set on the underside of the head. The dermis is covered...
having the most gill slits. It is similar to the sharpnose sevengill shark but the latter has a pointed snout and lacks spots on its dorsal surface. The sevengill...
have spines in their dorsal fins that inject venom as an anti-predator defense; anglerfish use the first spine of their dorsal fin like a fishing rod...
scales. The orbits (eyes) are separated by 7–9 scales. The nostril is like a slit and separated from the eye by two scales. The eye and the supralabials are...
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