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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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Sexual health
therapeutic abortion
Health care; Sexual health
The termination of a pregnancy because of fetal abnormality or to protect a woman’s physical or mental health or her life.
squamous cells
Health care; Sexual health
The thin, flat cells that line the surface of many organs of the body.
tertiary syphilis
Health care; Sexual health
The third phase of the infection during which multiple organ damage and failure occur.
Kegel exercises
Health care; Sexual health
The tightening and releasing of the muscles that stop urination in order to prevent and improve urinary incontinence, improve sexual sensation in women and men, and aid recovery of vaginal muscle ...
refractory period
Health care; Sexual health
The time after ejaculation during which a man is not able to have an erection.
puberty
Health care; Sexual health
The time between childhood and adulthood when girls and boys mature physically and sexually — when a girl is becoming a woman and a boy is becoming a man. Puberty is marked by changes such as breast ...
