amphimixis

amphimixis
amphimictic /am'feuh mik"tik/, adj.amphimictically, adv.
/am'feuh mik"sis/, n., pl. amphimixes /-mik"seez/.
1. Biol. the merging of the nuclei of the sperm and egg cells; sexual reproduction.
2. Psychoanal. the combining of anal and genital eroticism in the development of sexuality.
[1890-95; AMPHI- + Gk míxis a mingling, equiv. to mig- (s. of mígnynai to mix) + -sis -SIS]

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