Category: P

A surgical operation to divide the pubic bone during labour, in order to make the pelvis wide enough for the child to be born safely. An operation to divide the pubic bone near the symphysis, the front midline where the left and right pubic bones meet. Pubiotomy is performed during childbirth if it is necessary…

Tough hair growing in the genital region. Hair over the pubes, which appears at onset of sexual maturity. The distribution is somewhat different in men than in women.  

The bone in front of the pelvis. The lower anterior part of the innominate bone. It is a separate bone at birth; it begins to fuse with the ischium by age 8, and it is fully fused with the ischium and ilium by 16-18 years of age. The anterior section of both hip bones forms…

Referring to the area near the genitals.  

The part of the body just above the groin, where the pubic bones are found. Hair-covered surface covering the pubis at the front of the pelvis. Hairs on the genitals. Also called pubic hair. Unlike scalp hair, most pubic hair does not grow after puberty. The body surface that overlies the pubis, at the front…

The physical and psychological changes which take place when childhood ends and adolescence and sexual maturity begin and the sex glands become active. The time when these changes take place. The period of life when the individual undergoes a physical change from childhood to adulthood. The process is orchestrated by the sex hormones. The series…

A ganglion in the pterygopalatine fossa associated with the maxillary nerve.  

The space between the pterygoid process and the upper jaw. A space bounded posteriorly by the root of the pterygoid process, medially by the orbital and sphenoidal processes of the palatine bone, and anteriorly by the superomedial aspect of the posterior surface of the maxilla. Also called sphenomaxillary fossa.  

Referring to the pterygoid process and the mandible.  

One of two projecting parts on the sphenoid bone. The process of the sphenoid bone extending downward from the junction of the body and great wing. It consists of the lateral and medial pterygoid plates, which are fused at the top. The top of the pterygoid process is pierced by the pterygoid canal.