Relating to the reproductive organs or biological sex, used in medical, scientific, and psychological contexts.
From Latin 'genitalis' meaning 'of generation or reproduction,' from 'genitus' (born/produced). The term entered medical English in the 16th century for anatomical description.
In Freudian psychology, the 'genital stage' is the final developmental stage—Freud used anatomical terminology for psychological theory, which seems weird now but was cutting-edge science in the 1900s!
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