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Noun: anal phase
  1. (psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned
    "Freud believed the anal phase typically occurs between ages 18 months and 3 years";
    - anal stage

Derived forms: anal phases

Type of: phase, stage

Part of: childhood

Encyclopedia: Anal phase