among physicians, a name given to those, whose prepuce is either wanting, or shrunk, so that it can no longer cover the glans. Many authors have supposed this sense of the word Apella warranted from the passage in Horace, credat Judaeus Apella, non ego. But, according to Salmasius and others, Apella is the proper name of a certain Jew, and not an adjective signifying circumcised.