pregenital
adjective
pre·gen·i·tal
ˌprē-ˈje-nə-tᵊl 
variants
or less commonly pre-genital
1
: of, relating to, or being any of the stages of psychosexual development in psychoanalytic theory which occur before the genital stage
pregenital impulses
pregenital fixations
2
of a segmented invertebrate
: of, relating to, or situated in the abdominal region anterior to the segment containing the sexual organs
the pregenital segments of a grasshopper
a crustacean's pregenital limbs
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pregenital
adjective
pre·gen·i·tal
-ˈjen-ə-tᵊl
: of, relating to, or characteristic of the oral, anal, and phallic phases of psychosexual development
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