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{{Construction Site}}'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is a medical term that is used to designate the normal, healthfulhealthy, developmental condition of the [[penis]] during infancy, boyhood, and adolescence.

<b>Physiological</b> is a word that designates a normal, healthful healthy condition. It opposes the word <b>pathological</b> that designates an abnormal, perhaps diseased condition.<ref>{{REFweb

}}</ref> 1) The inner surface of the foreskin is fused with the underlying [[glans penis]] by a common [[synechia]] to prevent retraction. Forcible retraction will tear the synechia so should be avoided. 2) Nature provides a second method is provided to prevent retraction by making the tip of the immature foreskin too narrow to pass over the [[glans penis]]. The tip of the [[foreskin ]] normally widens to render the foreskin retractable by age 18, but a few persist until later. Non-retractable foreskin in adults is a normal variant.

The first person to retract a boy's [[foreskin ]] should be the boy himself.<ref name="Wright1994">{{REFjournal