- genital complex
- (Subclass Copepoda):Part of body formed from the fifth pedigerous and genital double-somites [Boxshall and Halsey, 2004].
Crustacea glossary. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 2011.
genital complex
Look at other dictionaries:
genital somite — (Subclass Copepoda): Segment of body bearing gonopores. Typically corresponds to first abdominal segment, yet also to fused last thoracic and first abdominal somites. May be enlarged in parasitic female. (Syn. genital complex) [Stachowitsch,… … Crustacea glossary
Complex and mixed tumor — Classification and external resources ICD O: 8560 8589, 8930 8990 MeSH D018193 A mixed tumor is a tumor derived from more than one type of tissue … Wikipedia
Female genital mutilation — Description Partial or complete removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs, for non medical reasons Areas practiced Western, eastern, and north eastern Africa, Middle East, Near East, Southeast Asia… … Wikipedia
Female genital cutting — (FGC), also known as female genital mutilation (FGM), female circumcision or female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), refers to all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female… … Wikipedia
Oedipus complex — For the species of salamander, see Oedipina complex. Oedipus explains the riddle of the Sphinx, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, (ca. 1805). In psychoanalytic theory, the term Oedipus complex denotes the emotions and ideas that the mind keeps in … Wikipedia
Electra complex — Electra complex: Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon, by Frederic Leighton, c.1869 In Neo Freudian psychology, the Electra complex, as proposed by Carl Gustav Jung, is a girl’s psychosexual competition with mother for possession of father. In the… … Wikipedia
Feminism and the Oedipus complex — The Freudian Oedipus Complex explains the attraction of the child to the parent of the opposite sex and the unconscious consequences of this attraction, and addresses the question of the same sex identification and animosity. Classical Freudian… … Wikipedia
castration complex — n a child s fear or delusion of genital injury at the hands of the parent of the same sex as punishment for unconscious guilt over oedipal strivings broadly the often unconscious fear or feeling of bodily injury or loss of power at the hands of… … Medical dictionary
pallial complex — (MOLLUSCA) All of the organs of the mantle cavity combined (ctenidia, osphradia, anus, renal and genital openings and glands) … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
castration complex — Psychoanal. an unconscious fear of losing the genital organs, esp. as punishment for oedipal feelings. [1910 15] * * * … Universalium
