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The meatus is protected by the [[foreskin]] of the [[intact]] normal [[penis]]. When a boy has been [[circumcised]], the meatus is more likely to develop meatitis,<ref name="brenneman1921">{{REFjournal
The meatus is protected by the [[foreskin]] of the [[intact]] normal [[penis]]. When a boy has been [[circumcised]] and has lost the protection of his foreskin, the meatus is more likely to develop meatitis,<ref name="brenneman1921">{{REFjournal
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  |DOI=10.1016/s0022-3476(47)80098-8  
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  |accessdate=2024-02-04
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}}</ref> and/or meatal stenosis. [[Foreskinned]] boys rarely, if ever, develop these issues.
}}</ref> and/or meatal stenosis.<ref name="vanhowe2006">{{REFjournal
|last=Van Howe
|init=RS
|author-link=Robert S. Van Howe
|title=Incidence of meatal stenosis following neonatal circumcision in a primary care setting
|journal=Clin Pediatr (Phila)
|date=2006-01
|volume=45
|issue=1
|pages=49-54
|url=https://www.academia.edu/6992015/Incidence_of_Meatal_Stenosis_following_Neonatal_Circumcision_in_a_Primary_Care_Setting
|quote=
|pubmedID=16429216
|pubmedCID=https://doi.org/10.1177/000992280604500108
|DOI=
|date=2006-01
|accessdate=2020-01-09
|note=Jan-Feb 2006
}}</ref> [[Foreskinned]] boys rarely, if ever, develop these issues.


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