pudendal
- a word derived from pudendum.
Example Sentences
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To put her patients at ease, she has made a tweak to her own language: She started calling the pudendal nerve “the undercarriage nerve.”
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2021
Melissa Turner left her job as a document control administrator late last year after receiving a pudendal neuralgia diagnosis.
From Slate • Jun. 8, 2018
After twisting themselves through the tangle of the sacral plexus, pudendal nerve fibers slip through the sacrum’s perforations, and plug into the spinal cord.
From Salon • Oct. 18, 2015
According to doctors, pudendal neuralgia occurs in both female and male patients, and can stem from multiple causes.
From US News • May 7, 2015
The large pudic and the pudendal constitute the main supply of the external genitals.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Ellis, Havelock
