Vagina

[və'dʒaɪnə]

Definition

(noun.) the lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus; 'the vagina receives the penis during coitus'; 'the vagina is elastic enough to allow the passage of a fetus'.

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Definition

(n.) A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.

(n.) Specifically, the canal which leads from the uterus to the external orifice if the genital canal, or to the cloaca.

(n.) The terminal part of the oviduct in insects and various other invertebrates. See Illust., of Spermatheca.

(n.) The basal expansion of certain leaves, which inwraps the stem; a sheath.

(n.) The shaft of a terminus, from which the bust of figure seems to issue or arise.

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Definition

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′ināte -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; Vaginī′tis inflammation of the vagina; Vaginot′omy cutting of the vagina; Vagin′ūla Vag′inule a diminutive vagina.—adj. Vagin′ulate having a vaginula sheathed.

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