genesialadj.

1848 W. T. Smith in Lancet 12 Aug. 202/1 Thus the larger genesial cycle would consist of twenty-one ovarian periods.

1854 Jrnl. Psychol. Med. & Mental Pathol. 7 269 In many maniacal young women there may be remarked a certain genesial excitation, betrayed by equivocal words and a certain coquetry of bearing.

1903 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 9 257 The physical environment..exercises an important influence upon the economic and genesial life, and consequently on the ensemble of societies.

1916 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminol. 6 738 The development of genesial tendencies is also furthered by obscene pictures or drawings and the immoral and unsightly exhibitions, too often seen in large cities.

1958 Hispania 41 66/2 The emphasis on the promiscuous, genesial ferment symbolizes the budding sexual attraction between Perucho and Manuela.

1849 London Med. Gaz. new ser. 8 995/1 The great genesial cycle of reflex relations between the ovaria, uterus, and mammæ.

1852 Lancet 1 May 424/1 The mammæ, ovaria, and uterus are acting and reacting upon each other so as to produce the ovario-uterine phenomena of menstruation, or the lesser genesial cycle; and that in the larger genesial cycle of menstruation, gestation, and lactation, the same triple synergy is in operation upon a larger scale.

2003 European Patent 1,334,724 2 Estradiol, one typical estrogen used in hormone substitution therapy is secreted by the ovary during the women's genesial cycle.