For Phimosis we have terms and definitions in 3 topics. The topics are Medical, Penis and Sex.

Phimosis (Medical)

Tightness of the foreskin, which prevents it from being moved back over the head of the penis

Phimosis (Penis)

Inability to retract the foreskin. Normal in all neonates (because the synechia attach the foreskin to the glans), many children and some adults (if the ridged band is short). In adults it is usually caused by infection, which needs to be treated. Blalock et al. found circumcision to cause phimosis in 2.9% of babies. Phimosis can be treated without surgery if it is painful or if the urinary flow is obstructed. European doctors limit the term to an inability to retract caused by scarring, such as results from Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans. Beaugé suggests a non-surgical method of treatment. Berdeu et al found non-surgical treatment to be more cost-effective than surgery. Lang found medical treatment to be effective in 53 out of 56 cases.
(Gk, = muzzling, but Frederick Hodges, in his essay "Phimosis in Antiquity", shows that the Greeks did not define it as modern medicine does, to include simple non-rectractability or "excessive" foreskin, but on the contrary recognised a condition of lipodermus - insufficient foreskin.)

Phimosis (Sex)

A condition in which the foreskin is so tight against the glans that it cannot be pulled back and must be loosened or removed surgically.

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