pudendal

[PUDENDA.] Pertaining or relating to the pudenda or private parts; pudic; as, the pudendal nerve. *pu-den-doŭs, a . [Lat. pudendus , fut. pa . par. of pudeo to be ashamed.] Fit or proper to be ashamed of; disgraceful, shameful. "A feeling laughable in a prieste , pudendous in a priest."-Sydney Smith: Peter Plymley & Letters , let. ii. půdģ-ỹ, a . [A variant of podgy (q. v.).] Fat and short; thick, podgy; short and wide. cases are fatal. puerperal-fever, s. Pathol.: The low fever of childbed, commencing with rigors and chills from septic infection and contamination of fluids, with local lesion of structure in most cases, and often severe peritonitis. There are three marked varieties: the simple inflammatory, the mild epidemic with nervous disturbance, and the putrid or malignant epidemic. It is puff