pre·gen·i·tal | \ ˌprē-ˈje-nə-tᵊl 
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\variants:
or less commonly pre-genital
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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pregenital
adjectivepre·gen·i·tal | \ -ˈjen-ə-tᵊl \
\Medical Definition of pregenital
: of, relating to, or characteristic of the oral, anal, and phallic phases of psychosexual development
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The first known use of pregenital was in 1869
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