VAGINA
\vəd͡ʒˈa͡ɪnə], \vədʒˈaɪnə], \v_ə_dʒ_ˈaɪ_n_ə]\
Definitions of VAGINA
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms (6th edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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[Latin] A sheath or sheath-like tube; a canal leading from the uterus to the external opening of the genital canal (anat.); the expanded sheath-like portion of a leaf base (bot.).
By J.H. Kenneth
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v[=a]-j[=i]'na, n. (anat.) the canal or passage which leads from the external orifice to the uterus, a sheath, case: the upper part of the pedestal of a terminus: (bot.) a leaf-stalk when it becomes thin and rolls round the stem to which it then forms a stalk, as in grasses.--adjs. VAG'INAL; VAG'INANT (bot.), investing as a sheath; VAG'IN[=A]TE, -D (bot.), invested by the tubular base of a leaf or leaf-stalk, as a stem: denoting a certain order of sheathed polypes; VAGINIC'OLINE, VAGINIC'OLOUS, living in a vagina; VAGINIF'EROUS, bearing a vagina; VAGINIPENN'ATE, VAGINOPENN'OUS, sheath-winged.--ns. VAGINIS'MUS, spasmodic contraction of the vagina; VAGIN[=I]'TIS, inflammation of the vagina; VAGINOT'OMY, cutting of the vagina; VAGIN'[=U]LA, VAG'INULE, a diminutive vagina.--adj. VAGIN'ULATE, having a vaginula, sheathed. [L., 'a sheath.']
By Thomas Davidson
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[Latin] A sheath. V. bulbi, V. oculi, Tenon’s capsule. V. femoris, the fascia lata. V. mucosa, V. synovialis, a bursa mucosa. V. pili, a hair-sheath. V. tendinis, sheath of a tendon.
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[Latin] The curved tube, from five to six inches in length, which ensheaths the neck of the uterus and receives the penis in copulation. It consists of a layer of longitudinal muscular fibres enclosing a middle coat or erectile tissue and an internal rugous mucous coat containing mucous glands. Its orifice is surrounded by the sphincter vaginae (bulbo-cavernosus) muscle.
By Alexander Duane
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Sheath, sheath-like covering, esp. (Anat.) sexual passage in female from uterus to external orifice, whence vaginitis, vaginotomy, nn.; (Bot.) sheath formed round stem by base of leaf. Hence vaginal, vaginate (d) aa. [Latin]
By Sir Augustus Henry
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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That part of the parturient canal which serves as the organ of copulation, extending from the vulva backward and somewhat upward to terminate in a blind pouch situated in front of the rectum and slightly to the right of it. Its anterior wall, near its posterior extremity, is pierced by the cervix uteri. When the v. is not distended, its anterior and posterior walls are flattened and in contact with each other. Its anterior wall lodges the urethra.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
By Henry Percy Smith
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