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genital(dictionary)
genital(dictionary)
Genital(medicine)
Genital(health)
genital ridge(medicine)
Genital herpes(health)
genital phase(medicine)
genital organs(medicine)
genital swellings(medicine)

polymorphous (iou) and genital stage (medicine)


polymorphous (iou)



polymorphous adjective. L18.
[from Greek polumorphos, formed as POLY- + morphe form: see -OUS.]
Having, assuming, or occurring in many or various forms; having many varieties; passing through various forms; multiform. L18.
Chemistry & Mineralogy. Crystallizing in two or more forms; chemically identical but crystallographically different. Cf. POLYMORPHIC. M19.
Comb.: polymorphous-perverse adjective (Psychoanalysis) characterized by a diffuse sexuality that can be excited and gratified in many ways and is normal in young children but regarded as perverted in adults.
polymorphously adverb in a polymorphous manner;
polymorphously perverse (Psychoanalysis) = polymorphous-perverse above: M20.

genital stage (medicine)


genital stage


Referring to the psychic organization derived from, and characteristic of, the Freudian genital period of the infant's psychosocial organization.

See: genitality.

See: anality, orality.