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There are four painful steps in every infant circumcision:

1. Before circumcision surgery can commence, the surgeon must first forcibly separate these two highly innervated body parts in an exquisitely painful procedure by the passage of a blunt probe between the two parts to rip and tear the [[synechia]] apart.<ref>{{REFjournal

# Before circumcision surgery can commence, the surgeon must first forcibly separate these two highly innervated body parts in an exquisitely painful procedure by the passage of a blunt probe between the two parts to rip and tear the [[synechia]] apart.<ref>{{REFjournal

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# Next, in another painful step, a [[dorsal slit]] must be cut in the foreskin, so that a special clamp can be installed.

2. Next, in another painful step, a [[dorsal slit]] must be cut in the foreskin, so that a special clamp can be installed.

# The foreskin is erogenous tissue,<ref>{{REFjournal

3. The foreskin is erogenous tissue,<ref>{{REFjournal

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# Finally, in another, painful step, the foreskin must be cut away.

4. Finally, in another, painful step, the foreskin must be cut away.

Lander ''et al''. (1997) conducted a comparison of no anesthesia (current practice in 1997), ring block, dorsal penile nerve block, and a topical eutectic mixture of local anesthetics (EMLA).

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 There are four painful steps in every infant circumcision:
-. Before circumcision surgery can commence, the surgeon must first forcibly separate these two highly innervated body parts in an exquisitely painful procedure by the passage of a blunt probe between the two parts to rip and tear the [[synechia]] apart.<ref>{{REFjournal
+# Before circumcision surgery can commence, the surgeon must first forcibly separate these two highly innervated body parts in an exquisitely painful procedure by the passage of a blunt probe between the two parts to rip and tear the [[synechia]] apart.<ref>{{REFjournal
   |last=Oliver
   |first=JE
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   |accessdate=2020-11-08
 }}</ref>
+# Next, in another painful step, a [[dorsal slit]] must be cut in the foreskin, so that a special clamp can be installed.
-. Next, in another painful step, a [[dorsal slit]] must be cut in the foreskin, so that a special clamp can be installed.
+# The foreskin is erogenous tissue,<ref>{{REFjournal
-. The foreskin is erogenous tissue,<ref>{{REFjournal
   |last=Falliers
   |first=
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   |accessdate=2020-11-08
 }}</ref>
+# Finally, in another, painful step, the foreskin must be cut away.
-. Finally, in another, painful step, the foreskin must be cut away.
 Lander ''et al''. (1997) conducted a comparison of no anesthesia (current practice in 1997), ring block, dorsal penile nerve block, and a topical eutectic mixture of local anesthetics (EMLA).