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Add information on time of retraction
Baby boys are born with the foreskin fused with the glans penis by a [[synechia| synechial membrane]]. The tip of the foreskin is usually too narrow to allow [[retraction of the foreskin]].
Thorvaldsen & Meyhoff (2005) conducted a survey of 4,000 boys in Denmark. They report that the mean age of first foreskin retraction is 10.4 years in Denmark.<ref name="Thorvaldsen-meyhoff2005">{{REFjournal
|last=Thorvaldsen
|first=M.A.
|last2=Meyhoff
|first2=H.
|title=Patologisk eller fysiologisk fimose?
|trans-title=Pathological or physiological phimosis?
|language=Danish
|journal=Ugeskr Læger
|volume=167
|issue=17
|pages=1858-1862
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/normal/thorvaldsen1/
|quote=
|pubmedID=
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|date=2005
|accessdate=2019-11-14
}}</ref>
===Foreskin in adulthood===