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What does perianal mean?
Of or pertaining to the areas immediately around the anus.
Where does perianal come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Ancient Greek περῐ́ (perĭ́)der. English peri- English anal English perianal From peri- + anal.

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