Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In anatomy, pudendal.
  • Internal, a large and surgically very important branch of the anterior trunk of the internal iliac artery, the principal source of the blood-supply of the external genitals. It leaves the pelvis by the greater sciatic foramen, winds around the ischiac spine, reënters the pelvis by the lesser sciatic foramen, courses along the inner side of the rami of the ischium and pubis, gives off inferior hemorrhoidal and superficial and transverse perineal branches, and divides into three penial arteries — of the bulb and cavernous body and dorsum of the penis.
  • Internal, a vein corresponding to the internal pudicartery, except that it does not receive the blood from the dorsal vein of the penis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the external organs of generation.

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  • adjective Easily ashamed, having a strong sense of shame; modest, chaste.
  • adjective anatomy Pertaining to the pudendum or external genital organs; pudendal.

Etymologies

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From French pudique, from Latin pudīcus, from pudet ("it shames").

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Examples

  • Most often he does not recognize and therefore isolates the pudic and hidden side of life, together with the poetry it contains.

    Balzac 2003

  • A Whiggish clique, unable to harm her in any other way, banded together to damn the play and so endeavoured to raise a pudic hubbub, that happily proved quite ineffective.

    A Memoir of Mrs. Behn 2002

  • Along the surface of this interval, the superficial perinaeal artery and nerve are seen to pass forwards; and deep in it, beneath these, may also be observed, L, the artery of the bulb, arising from the pudic, and crossing inwards, under cover of the anterior layer of the membrane named the deep perinaeal fascia.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • On either side of the anus, in the ischio-rectal space, D D, Fig. 1, Plate 51, is found a considerable quantity of granular adipose tissue, traversed by the inferior haemorrhoidal arteries and nerves-branches of the pudic artery and nerve.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • If the superficial lateral incision C, Fig. 1, be made too deeply at its forepart, the artery of the bulb, even when in its usual place, will be wounded; and if the deep lateral incision D be carried too far outwards, the trunk of the pudic artery will be severed.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The prostate is separated from the pudic artery by the levator ani muscle, and from the artery of the bulb, by the deep perinaeal fascia and the muscular fibres enclosed between its two layers.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • It is introduced into the esophagus or larynx to remove foreign bodies or introduce medication. pudic

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The deep perinaeal fascia (triangular ligament) encloses between its two layers, C E, on either side of the urethra, the pudic artery, the artery of the bulb, Cowper's glands, and some muscular fibres occasionally to be met with, to which the name "Compressor urethrae" has been assigned.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Most often he does not recognize and therefore isolates the pudic and hidden side of life, together with the poetry it contains.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • The pudic artery and vein wind around the spine, E, of the ischium, where they are joined by the pudic nerve, derived from, T, the sacral plexus.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

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  • The brat has devised a new trick
    To goad and alarm the pudic.
    He caresses the cone
    And emits a low moan
    While giving the ice cream a lewd lick.

    November 21, 2014