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GLANS

Volume 7 · 57 words · 1797 Edition

in anatomy, the tip or button of the penis, or that part covered with the prepuce, called also balanus. See ANATOMY, p. 739, col. 1.

GLANS is also used to denote the tip or extremity of the clitoris, from its resemblance, both in form and use, to that of the penis. See ANATOMY, p. 739, col. 2.