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Vagina

noun

(pl. vaginae)

The lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus. "The vagina is elastic enough to allow the passage of a fetus"

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vestibule of the vagina

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"Vagina" Quotes from Famous Books

... technique, and a hint at least of our modern apparatus. Fracture of the pubic arch, for instance, is described in Abulcasis quite as if he had had definite experience with it. When this occurs in a woman, the reposition of the bone is often greatly facilitated by a cotton tampon in the vagina. This tampon must be removed at every urination. There is another way, however, of better securing the same purpose of counterpressure. One may take a sheep's bladder into the orifice of which a tube is fastened. One should introduce the bladder ...

— Old-Time Makers of Medicine • James J. Walsh

... genital organs, basing the legitimacy of the comparison upon early embryological relations and upon the state of things in Coelentera, where genital and digestive organs occupy the same cavity. In his view the uterus corresponded to the stomach, the vagina to the oesophagus, the fallopian tubes to the intestine, and ...

— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

... know the general plan of her own sexual structure. She should know the scientific names of her organs, not because there are many vulgar names as in the case of boys, but because dignified names help attitude. Ovaries, uterus (womb), vagina, Fallopian tubes, and vulva will be sufficient. Detailed description of the external organs (vulva) might arouse curiosity that leads to exploration and irritation, and hence many women physicians think ...

— Sex-education - A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its - relation to human life • Maurice Alpheus Bigelow

... between the bladder and vagina (vesico-vaginal fistula), or between the bladder ...

— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

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