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'''Epispasm''' is a word derived from ancient Greek, (''επισπασμοσ''), that means circumcision reversal or [[foreskin restoration]]. <ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.yourdictionary.com/epispasm |title=Epispasm |last= |first= |accessdate=2020-07-17}}</ref> Epispasm was popular in the First Century among circumcised Jewish men who wished to appear as Greek.<ref name="hall1992">{{REFjournal
|last=Hall
|first=Robert
|pages=52-7
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/restoration/hall1/
|accessdate=2020-07-17
}}</ref>
Hodges (2001) reported, ''Lipodermos'' is the name given by the Greeks to the condition of having a deficient foreskin.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Hodges
|first=Frederick M.
|author-link=
|etal=no
|title=The Ideal Prepuce in Ancient Greece and Rome: Male Genital Aesthetics and Their Relation to Lipodermos, Circumcision, Foreskin Restoration, and the Kynodesme
|trans-title=
|language=English
|journal=Bull. Hist. Med.
|location=
|date=2001-09
|volume=75
|issue=3
|pages=375-405
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/history/hodges2/
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=11568485
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1353/bhm.2001.0119
|accessdate=2020-07-17
}}</ref>