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==External links==
* ''The Ridged Band: Specialized Sexual Tissue'' URL: http://research.cirp.org/ (Dr John R. Taylor responsible for site content)
===Illustrations===
* ''Dr John Taylor's illustrations'' [http://research.cirp.org/pix1.html]
* ''Your Anatomy''[http://www.infocirc.org/townsend/anatomy2.htm] Site illustrating the ridged band
* ''Ridged band and frenulum''[http://www.sexdictionary.info/ridged%20ban_frenulum.html] SexDictionary.info
updated formatting - please use {{LINKS}} as last but one, and {{REF}} as last section in articles. :-)
The '''ridged band''' is a band of highly innervated wrinkly skin just inside the tip of the [[foreskin]]. The term ''ridged'' is used to describe the area instead of the more commonly used term ''wrinkled''. It has, especially in regard to [[phimosis]] (and preputioplasty), been called '''preputial ring''' or '''phimotic ring''', ''ring'' being analogous to ''band'', referring to the shape, and ''preputial'' meaning ''pertaining to the [[Foreskin|prepuce]]''. More particularly, it refers to the transitional area from the external to the internal surface of the prepuce, or foreskin. The ridged band separates the outer skin of the penis from the inner mucosa. The ridged band contains nerve endings arranged at the crest of rete ridges. The nerve endings resemble Meissner corpuscles or Krause end-bulbs.
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| DOI= 10.1046/j.1464-410x.1996.85023.x
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==Illustrations==
* [http://research.cirp.org/pix1.html Dr John Taylor's illustrations]
* [http://www.infocirc.org/townsend/anatomy2.htm Your Anatomy] Site illustrating the ridged band
* [http://www.sexdictionary.info/ridged%20ban_frenulum.html Ridged band and frenulum] (SexDictionary.info)
{{LINKS}}
* [http://research.cirp.org The Ridged Band: Specialized Sexual Tissue] (Dr John R. Taylor responsible for site content)
{{REF}}