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Genital




Genital

Having to do with the sex organs.



SIMILAR TERMS
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Geniculostriate pathway
Pathway from the retina via the LGN to the striate cortex.

Genital herpes
Herpes simplex of the genitals.

Genital penetration phobia
A hypophilic condition or syndrome, variable in etiology, or irrational panic and disabling fear that prevents having the vagina entered by something, particularly the penis, or the penis enveloped in something, particularly the vagina.

Genital warts
Sexually transmitted form of anogenital warty growth caused by the human papillomaviruses.

Genitalia
The sex organs, internal and external. The word is often used to refer to the external organs only.

Genitals
External sex organs: the penis and testicles in a male and the labia in a female.

Genitoerotic
Erotic feeling and activity specifically involving the genitals in imagery and/or practice.

Genitourinary (GU)
Pertaining to the genital and urinary systems.

Genitourinary system
The genitals and urinary organs.



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Gender dysphoria
The state, as subjectively experienced, of incongruity between the genital anatomy and the gender-identity/role (G-I/R), particularly in the syndromes of transexualism and transvestism.

Gender-identity (G-I)
Gender identity is the private experience of gender role, and gender role is public manifestation of gender identity. Gender identity is the sameness, unity, and persistence of one's individuality as male, female, or [androgynous]{ambivalent}, in greater or lesser degree, especially as it is experienced in self-awareness and behavior.

Gender-role (G-R)
Gender role is everything that a person says and does to indicate to others or to the self the degree that one is either male or female or [androgynous]{ambivalent}; it includes but is not restricted to sexual and erotic arousal and response (which should never be excluded from the definition.

Gendermap
A developmental representation or template synchronously in the mind and brain depicting the detailed coding of one's gender-identity/role (G-I/R) as masculine, feminine, or mixed.. It includes the sexuoerotic components of the lovemap but is larger, insofar as it incorporates whatever is gender coded vocationally, educationally, recreationally, sartorially, and legally as well as semiotically as in matters of etiquette, grooming, body ornamentation, body language, and vocal intonation.

Gender transposition
The switching or crossing over of attributes, expectancies, or stereotypes, of gender-identity/role (G-I/R) from male to female, or vice versa, either serially or simultaneously, temporarily or persistently, in small or large degree, and with either insignificant or significant repercussions and consequences.

Genital

Genital penetration phobia
A hypophilic condition or syndrome, variable in etiology, or irrational panic and disabling fear that prevents having the vagina entered by something, particularly the penis, or the penis enveloped in something, particularly the vagina.

Genitalia
The sex organs, internal and external. The word is often used to refer to the external organs only.

Genitoerotic
Erotic feeling and activity specifically involving the genitals in imagery and/or practice.

Gerontalism
Impersonating an older person and being treated as one by a partner--one of the stigmatic/eligibilic paraphilias.

Gerontology
The science of aging and age-related phenomena.

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