pregenital

adjective

pre·​gen·​i·​tal ˌprē-ˈje-nə-tᵊl 

variants or less commonly pre-genital

1

: of, relating to, or being any of the stages of psychosexual development in psychoanalytic theory which occur before the genital stage

pregenital impulses

pregenital fixations

2

of a segmented invertebrate : of, relating to, or situated in the abdominal region anterior to the segment containing the sexual organs

the pregenital segments of a grasshopper

a crustacean's pregenital limbs

Word History

First Known Use

1869, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for pregenital

• congenital
• subgenital
• genital
• urogenital

Medical Definition

pregenital

adjective

pre·​gen·​i·​tal -ˈjen-ə-tᵊl 

: of, relating to, or characteristic of the oral, anal, and phallic phases of psychosexual development