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The clitoral hood is composed of [[Mucocutaneous zone|muccocutaneous]] tissues; these tissues are between the [[mucosa]] and the skin, and they may have immunological importance because they may be a point of entry of mucosal vaccines.<ref name="Cold and Taylor">{{REFjournal
The clitoral hood is composed of [[Mucocutaneous zone|muccocutaneous]] tissues; these tissues are between the [[mucosa]] and the skin, and they may have immunological importance because they may be a point of entry of mucosal vaccines.<ref name="Cold and Taylor">{{ColdCJ TaylorJR 1999}}</ref> The clitoral hood is also important not only in protection of the clitoral glans, but also in pleasure, as it is an [[Erogenous zone|erogenous]] tissue.<ref name="Cold and Taylor"/>
|last=Cold
|init=CJ
|author-link=Christopher J. Cold
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|title=The Prepuce
|journal=British Journal of Urology
|date=1999
|volume=83
|issue=1
|pages=34–44
|DOI=10.1046/j.1464-410x.1999.0830s1034.x
|pubmedID=10349413
|s2cid=30559310
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}}</ref> The clitoral hood is also important not only in protection of the clitoral glans, but also in pleasure, as it is an [[Erogenous zone|erogenous]] tissue.<ref name="Cold and Taylor"/>


==Development and variation==
==Development and variation==