GENITALIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genitalia mean? 

• GENITALIA (noun)
  The noun GENITALIA has 1 sense:

1. external sex organ

  Familiarity information: GENITALIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENITALIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

External sex organ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

crotch; genital organ; genitalia; genitals; private parts; privates

Hypernyms ("genitalia" is a kind of...):

reproductive organ; sex organ (any organ involved in sexual reproduction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "genitalia"):

pudendum (human external genital organs collectively especially of a female)

fanny; female genital organ; female genitalia; female genitals (external female sex organs)

family jewels; male genital organ; male genitalia; male genitals (external male sex organs)

 Context examples 

A benign smooth muscle neoplasm arising from the arrector pili muscle, tunica media of blood vessels, and dartos muscle of the genitalia.

(Cutaneous Leiomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Approximately 20% of the patients have ambiguous external genitalia.

(Juvenile Type Granulosa Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

An arterial segment arising from the abdominal aorta that supplies blood to the abdominal organs, other structures, genitalia and the lower limbs.

(Abdominal Aorta Branch, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the following abnormalities: multiple lentigines, electrocardiographic conduction abnormalities, ocular hypertelorism, pulmonary stenosis, abnormalities in genitalia, growth retardation, and deafness.

(LEOPARD Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare congenital abnormality in which the infant's external genitalia do not have the typical appearance of a male's or female's genitalia.

(Ambiguous Genitalia, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include a characteristic facial appearance (protuberant and low-set ears, thick lips, and flaring nostrils), intrauterine growth retardation, insulin resistance, and enlarged genitalia.

(Donohue Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Neoplasms of the male genitalia.

(Male Reproductive System Neoplasm, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)