Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In pathology, inability to perform the sexual act without pain: usually applied to females.
Wiktionary
- n. Painful or difficult sexual intercourse, especially in women.
Etymologies
- From dys- + Ancient Greek πάρευνος (pareunos, "lying beside, lying with"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And women who are not taking hormone replacement in the menopause often complain of what we call dyspareunia, which is pain with intercourse, because of dryness and lack of lubrication.”
“The origin of the word dyspareunia shows that this may be the case, for _dyspareunos_ in Greek means badly mated.”
“This can bring on different aspects of pain, such as dysmenorrhea - painful, sometimes disabling cramps during menses; pain may get worse over time (progressive pain), also lower back pains linked to the pelvis, chronic pelvic pain - typically accompanied by lower back pain or abdominal pain, dyspareunia - painful sex, dysuria - urinary urgency, frequency, and sometimes painful voiding.”
The Huffington Post: Robyn N. Cohen: Why Endometriosis Needs More Media Attention
“It's categorised medically as a lack of arousal or desire to have sex; dyspareunia (pain or discomfort during intercourse), diminished blood flow to the vagina, and an inability to achieve orgasm.”
“On November 28, the FDA approved synthetic conjugated estrogens-A 0.625 mg/g vaginal cream SCE-A Vaginal Cream; Duramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc for the treatment of moderate to severe vaginal dryness and moderate to severe dyspareunia, which are both symptoms of vulvar and vaginal atrophy due to menopause.”
“The approval was based on data from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study (n = 275), showing that SCE-A vaginal cream was significantly more effective than placebo for reduction of symptoms of vaginal dryness (P = .0016) and dyspareunia (P = .0002) during a 12-week period.”
“Another sexual “dysfunction” is dyspareunia, or genital pain associated with sexual intercourse.”
“Look up “dyspareunia” – via Google or any other search engine of your choice.”
“Current best-practice approaches to dyspareunia emphasize a multifaceted etiology and treatment model that recognizes the complex interaction of physical as well as emotional components.”
“Dyspareunia: This refers to painful intercourse pain in the genitals or pelvis and is considered by many clinicians to be better conceptualized as a pain problem rather than a sexual problem, in part because women with dyspareunia typically also experience pain upon gynecological examination, insertion of a tampon, etc.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dyspareunia’.
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corpus medicorum
words describing medical conditions
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
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sexual feelings
words describing the sexual parts of life
snog, shag, copulate, intercourse, paraphilia, carnal, fetish, fornicate, abstinence, foreplay, coitus, chastity and 119 more...
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Depraved and Insulting English
Vocabulary from Peter Novobatzky's and Ammon Shea's highly entertaining book of words I wish I could use in conversation.
ablutophobic, aboiement, abydocomist, acalculiac, achilous, acokoinonia, acrocephalic, acrotophiliac, acrotomophiliac, ameliotist, apotemnophiliac, monopediomaniac and 349 more...
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Psych
dissonance, aphasia, psychotic, schizoid, schizotypal, cognition, sublimation, oedipal, self-actualization, psychoanalysis, humanist, freudian and 51 more...
Tweets
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john “Meana, who serves with Chivers on the board of Archives of Sexual Behavior, entered the field of sexology in the late 1990s and began by working clinically and carrying out research on dyspareunia — women’s genital pain during intercourse.�?
The New York Times, What Do Women Want?, by Daniel Bergner, January 22, 2009 Jan 24, 2009