pudendum

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To be sure, it is very far from my ideas and the principles expressed by me in neuropathology to regard the sexual life as a "pudendum" which should be left unconsidered by the physician and the scientific investigator.

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  1. noun The human external genital organs, especially of a woman. Often used in the plural.

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  • The external mass of tissue she is sitting on is the pudendum. —  Boing Boing
  • Now-a-days, it is like another pudendum of the soul of the speculative genre of our species.
  • Perdikis, the Greek for a young partridge, is "the rump" or "behind", havalóu, the female pudendum, lióka its convex masculine complement; manganízo is "I fornicate"; souavlízo, which normally means "playing a reed pipe", here means "I urinate"; kouphróno and tzarmízo, identical in sense, are its solider companion verbs and koúphrisma and tzármisma their end products; tramalízo and lazinízo both mean to break wind and tramálisma is the same wind once broken. —  Laudator Temporis Acti
  • To be sure, it is very far from my ideas and the principles expressed by me in neuropathology to regard the sexual life as a "pudendum" which should be left unconsidered by the physician and the scientific investigator. —  Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners
  • The pudendum was dreadfully swollen, and literally black. —  The Dog
 

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  1. Latin, neuter gerundive of pudēre, to make or be ashamed.

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  1. Latin, gerund. of pudere, feel shame: see pudency.
 

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/pjuˈdɛndəm/
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