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Clitoris
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ CLITORIS  id+ | HIDDEN ONE |
^u          id+ | FEMENINE PENIS |
  gr  KLEITORIS = CLITORIS
      KLEIEIN     TO HIDE or TO CLOSE
  ukr KLITKA      CELL as in CELLAR or JAIL
  lit+ "CLITORIS IS A SMALL BODY ...
        PLACED IN THE HEIGHT OF THE LAP"
  in "The Body of Man"  by Shakespeare [#]
  old eng LAP = FEMININE PUDENDA
  med> SENSITIVE ERECTILE FEMALE GENITAL ORGAN
       THE EQUIVALENT or  ANALOG OF AN UNDERDEVELOPED PENIS
  SURROUNDED BY THE LABIA MINORA REPRESENTING AN ANALOG OF
  AN UNDERDEVELOPED SCROTUM
  cont> see> LAP   see> CELL

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