Letter B

Balanitis

Inflammation of the rounded head (the glans) of the penis.

Inflammation of the foreskin is called posthitis.

In the uncircumcised male, balanitis and posthitis generally occur together as balanoposthitis: inflammation of both the glans and foreskin.

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