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Circumcision is most-commonly performed on newborn infants as a non-therapeutic cultural body re-configuration. At that tender age, the [[foreskin ]] normally is fused with the underlying [[glans penis ]] by a synechial membrane that is common to both parts.<ref name="deibart1933">{{REFjournal

}}</ref> Before circumcision surgery can commence, the surgeon must first forcibly separate these two highly innervated body parts in an exquisitely painful procedure by the passage of a blunt probe between the two parts to rip and tear the synechia apart.