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neopenis en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From neo- + penis.

Meanings

1. A surgically constructed penis, as of a transgender man who has undergone sex reassignment surgery, or a cisgender man who lacked a penis due to a congenital defect, illness, or injury.
   • Although many of the phalloplasty techniques may achieve closely the goals of a neopenis with normal urination, none of them are perfect, and therefore none have achieved universal acceptance. 2015, Vincenzo Mirone, Clinical Uro-Andrology, page 39:
   • The neopenis can only become erect by inserting stiff material into it or by having plastic tubes implanted into the groin, so that pressing a bulb will cause the penis to hydraulically inflate with fluid and erect. 1994, Gordene Olga MacKenzie, Transgender nation:

Forms

Coordinates

neovagina

Translations (3)

pl neopenis (surgically constructed penis) · fr néo-pénis (surgically constructed penis) · fi neopenis (surgically constructed penis)