smegma
noun/ˈsmeɡmə/
/ˈsmeɡmə/
[uncountable] (medical)- a substance produced in the folds of the skin, especially under the foreskinWord Originearly 19th cent.: via Latin from Greek smēgma ‘soap’, from smēkhein ‘cleanse’.
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