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'''Aposthia''' is a term that refers to the rare condition of being born without a [[foreskin]].
'''Aposthia''' is a term that refers to the rare condition of being born without a [[foreskin]].


Toward the end of the nineteenth century, E. S. Talbot claimed in ''Medicine'' that aposthia among Jews was evidence for the now-discredited Lamarckian theory of evolution.<ref>E. S. Talbot, "Inheritance of circumcision effects", ''Medicine'' 1898.</ref> It is likely that the cases he described were actually [[hypospadias]], a condition in which the urinary meatus is on the underside of the penis.
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, E. S. Talbot claimed in ''Medicine'' that aposthia among Jews was evidence for the now-discredited Lamarckian theory of evolution.<ref>{{REFjournal
|first=E.S.
|last=Talbot
|title=Inheritance of circumcision effects
|journal=Medicine
|date=1898
}}</ref> It is likely that the cases he described were actually [[hypospadias]], a condition in which the urinary meatus is on the underside of the penis.


== Aposthia in Judaism ==
== Aposthia in Judaism ==
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* Amin-Ud-Din M, Salam A, Rafiq MA, Khaliq I, Ansar M, Ahmad W. [http://www.emro.who.int/Publications/emhj/1302/article7.htm Aposthia: a birth defect or normal quantitative recessive human genetic trait?] ''East Mediterr Health J.'' 2007 March-April; 13(2):280-6.
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