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'''Lipodermos''' (λιποδερμος, lit. "lacking skin") is an ancient Greek medical disease concept which describes a penis with little or no foreskin. <ref name="hodges2001">Hodges FM. [http://www.cirp.org/library/history/hodges2/ The Ideal Prepuce in Ancient Greece and Rome: Male Genital Aesthetics and Their Relation to Lipodermos, Circumcision, Foreskin Restoration, and the Kynodesme]. ''Bull. Hist. Med.,'' 2001 Fall; 75(3): 375.</ref><ref>Pseudo-Galen, but presented as Galen in ''Definitiones medicae'' 164, in Kühn, MG (n. 9), 19: 445. See Jutta Kollesch, ''Untersuchungen zu den pseudogalenischen Definitiones Medicae'' (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1973).</ref> The Greeks valued a longer prepuce, and pathologized the state of having a deficient prepuce, especially one that has been surgically ablated(i.e. circumcised).<ref name="hodges2001" /> It must be remembered that this medical conceptualization happened in the historical context of the legal efforts to abolish ritual circumcision throughout the Seleucid and Roman empires.<ref name="hodges2001" />