Tags: Anatomical Structure.
In female human anatomy the clitoral hood (also called praeputium clitoridis and clitoral prepuce) is a fold of skin that surrounds and protects the glans of the clitoris; it also covers the external shaft of the clitoris develops as part of the labia minora and is homologous with the foreskin (equally called prepuce) in male genitals.The clitoral hood like the foreskin is composed of muccocutaneous tissues; these tissues are between the mucosa and the skin and they may have immunological importance because they may be a point of entry of mucosal vaccines.
