English Explanatory Dictionary

epispasm

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of foreskin restoration to reverse circumcision, historically practised among some Jews in Hellenistic and Roman societies.

Word forms

epispasm

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπισπάω (epispáō, “draw the foreskin foreward”), from σπάω (spáō).

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