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