lipodermos

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lipodermos (plural lipodermoses)

Lacking prepuce.
- 2001, Frederick J. Hodges in [The Ideal Prepuce in Ancient Greece and Rome]
  As we have seen, a mutually reinforcing synthesis between preexisting Greek cultural views of the prepuce and Greek reactions to the anti-preputial practices of certain Near Eastern peoples who had been incorporated into the Seleucid and Roman empires converges in a single medical concept: lipodermos (λιποδερμος, or, alternatively, λειποδερμος) literally, "lacking skin"—the pathological disorder of the penis whose symptom was an artificially or congenitally externalized glans penis.
- 2016, J. Paul Sampley, Paul in the Greco-Roman World: A Handbook: Volume I, page 120 (reprinted 2020 by Troy Martin in Theology and Practice in Early Christianity, page 44)
  For these physicians, lacking a complete prepuce whether artificially by circumcision or congenitally is the primary symptom of a pathological condition they called lipodermos. They devise treatments to restore the imperfect penis