genital

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or relating to the external reproductive or sexual organs

   The examination found no injury to the genital area.

2. 2
   adj

   in psychoanalytic theory, relating to the stage of psychosexual development associated with mature sexuality

   The textbook presents the genital stage as the final phase in Freud's model.

From Middle English genital, borrowed from Latin genitalis, 'of generation or birth,' from genitus, the past participle of gignere, 'to beget.' Its anatomical and psychoanalytic senses retain the connection with generation and sexual reproduction.

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