Definition of "pudendum" []

• The human external genital organs, especially of a woman. Often used in the plural. (noun)

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• "The term pudendum or vulva, as generally applied, includes all these parts."
• "Calculi do not form so readily in women, for in them the urethra is short and wide, so that in them the urine is easily expelled; neither do they rub the pudendum with their hands, nor handle the passage like males; for the urethra in women opens direct into the pudendum, which is not the case with men, neither in them is the urethra so wide, and they drink more than children do."
• "To be sure, it is very far from my ideas and the principles expressed by me in neuropathology to regard the sexual life as a "pudendum" which should be left unconsidered by the physician and the scientific investigator."