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'''Synechia''' is the medical name for an adhesion between body parts in any part area of the bodythat are not normally adherent . The plural is '''synechiae'''. The word comes to us from Greek.<ref>{{REFweb
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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>{{REFjournal
|last=Deibart
|first=GA
|author-link=
|coauthors=
|title=The separation of the prepuce in the human penis
|journal=Anat Rec
|date=1933
|volume=57
|issue=
|pages=387-99
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/deibert/
|quote=
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|pubmedCID=
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.1090570409
|accessdate=2019-10-07
}}</ref> The synechial membrane gradually breaks down and releases the foreskin so it can be retracted. About 50 percent of boys can retract their foreskin by age 10.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Thorvaldsen
|first=MA
|author-link=
|coauthors=Meyhoff HH
|title=Phimosis: pathological or physiological?
|journal=Ugeskr Læge
|date=2005
|volume=167
|issue=17
|pages=1858-62
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/normal/thorvaldsen1/
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|pubmedID=15929334
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}}</ref>
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