Sexual health

Sexual health

Enjoying emotional, physical, and social well-being in regard to one’s sexuality, including free and responsible sexual expression that enriches one’s personal and social life and fulfills one’s sexual rights. Disorders in sexual health can impact a person’s physical and emotional health, as well as his or her relationships and self-image.

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Vaginal lubrication

Health care; Sexual health

During sexual arousal, the secretion of a slippery fluid from the blood vessels that "perspires" through the rugae of the walls of the vagina into the vaginal canal to facilitate penetration.

Neurula

Health care; Sexual health

Developing from the blastocyst, the pre-embryonic stage of a pregnancy during which the neural tube develops, which then marks the beginning of the embryonic stage of development.

Anti-inflammatory drugs

Health care; Sexual health

Drugs that reduce inflammation (swelling) by modifying the body's immune response.

Refractory disease

Health care; Sexual health

Disease that is no longer improving after being treated.

Dry days

Health care; Sexual health

Days in the menstrual cycle when little cervical mucus is produced.

Sexual selection

Health care; Sexual health

In Darwin's theory of evolution, this is the term for the female animal's choice of partner(s) from a large group of potential mates, based on the sexual characteristics of the males — longest tail, ...

Frenulum

Health care; Sexual health

In women, the highly sensitive tissue where the inner labia join below the glans of the clitoris. In men, the highly sensitive, triangular piece of skin just below the glans of the penis.