phallic

phallic definition - medical

phal·lic (fălˈĭk)

adjective
  1. Of, relating to, or resembling a phallus.
  2. Of or relating to the third stage of psychosexual development in psychoanalytic theory during which the genital organs first become the focus of sexual feeling.

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