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|url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/synechia
|title=Synechia
|publisher=The Free Medical Dictionary
|website=The Free Dictionary
|accessdate=2019-10-07
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There are some synechiae that are natural. Baby boys are born with the inner foreskin fused with the glans penis by a synechial membrane that is common to both parts,<ref name="deibart1933">{{REFjournal
|last=Deibart
|init=GA
|first=G.A.
|title=The separation of the prepuce in the human penis
}}</ref> The separation and breakdown and the synechia is natural, normal, spontaneous, and requires no special care. Thorvaldsen & Meyhoff (2005) report about 50 percent of boys can retract their [[foreskin]] by age 10.4, thus confirming Øster's report.<ref name-"thorvaldsen2005">{{REFjournal
|last=Thorvaldsen
|firstinit=M.A.MA
|last2=Meyhoff
|first2init2=H.H.HH
|title=Phimosis: pathological or physiological?
|journal=Ugeskr Læge
Premature forcible foreskin retraction (PFFR) of a boy's foreskin will rip the boy's synechia apart and cause severe pain and injury to the boys.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Narvaez
|firstinit=D.F.DF
|last2=Geisheker
|first2init2=J. |author2-link=John Geisheker
|title=What Is the Greatest Danger for an Uncircumcised Boy?
|journal=Psychology Today
}}</ref> <ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Narvaez
|firstinit=D.F.DF
|last2=Geisheker
|first2init2=J. |author2-link=John Geisheker
|title=Doctor Ignorance of Male Anatomy Harms Boys
|journal=Psychology Today
|DOI=
|accessdate=2019-10-08
}}</ref> Unfortunately, many American physicians are ignorant of normal penile anatomy and cause severe pain and grave injury to boys whom they examine in their practice. The first person to retract a boy's foreskin should be the boy himself.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Wright
|firstinit=J.E.JE
|title= Further to the "Further Fate of the Foreskin."
|journal=Med J Aust
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|title=Answers to Your Questions About Premature (Forcible) Retraction of Your Young Son's Foreskin