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epispasm

The English word “epispasm” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

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

Etymology

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

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