See Also: prepuce(medicine)
Prepuce(health)
prepuce(dictionary)
frenulum of prepuce(medicine)
hooded prepuce(medicine)
prepuce of clitoris(medicine)

pneumocystis (iou) and prepuce (iou)


pneumocystis (iou)



pneumocystis noun. M20.
[mod. Latin Pneumocystis (see below) formed as PNEUMO- + late Latin CYSTIS.]
Medicine. A parasitic protozoan, Pneumocystis carinii, which may inhabit the lungs. Also (in full pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis, pneumocystis pneumonia, pneumocystis pneumonitis), a fatal form of pneumonia characterized by cysts in the lungs, caused by infection with this organism, esp. in immunosuppressed individuals.

prepuce (iou)



prepuce noun. ['pri:pju:s] LME.
[French prepuce from Latin PRAEPUTIUM.]
The foreskin. Also, the fold of skin surrounding the clitoris. LME.
fig. The state of uncircumcision. LME-L16.