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‖ pudendum|pjuːˈdɛndəm|
Usually in pl. pudenda.
[L., neuter gerundive of pudēre to cause shame, ashame, lit. ‘that of which one ought to be ashamed’, used as n., commonly in pl.]
a. The privy parts; the external genital organs, esp. those of a woman.
[1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xlviii. (Bodl. MS.), Also for schame þese partyes hatte pudenda þe schamelich parties.] 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 15 She [Hottentot] will immediately pull by her flap, and discouer her pudenda. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. 449 The original Sources of the Shame relating to the Pudenda are probably the Privacy requisite [etc.]. 1841Ramsbotham Obstetr. Med. (1855) 33 These parts, closing and surrounding the genital fissure, altogether constitute the pudendum. 1893T. M. Madden Clin. Gynæcol. v. 59 The value [for pruritus] of a solution of cocaine freely brushed over the pudendum..is unquestionable. 1922A. G. Magian Sex Probl. Women ii. 31 The Vulva, or Pudendum, includes—(1) The labia majora and minora bounding the pudendal cleft. (2) The mons veneris. (3) The vestibule, [etc.]. 1977E. J. Trimmer et al. Visual Dict. Sex (1978) v. 58 Sanskrit manuscripts show Indian women with shaved pudenda.
b. fig.
1938S. Beckett Murphy 47 Here are the pudenda of my psyche. |