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The lower part of the female reproductive tract
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vagina
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Word definitions for vagina in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vagina \Va*gi"na\, n.; pl. Vagin[ae] . [L. vagina a scabbard or sheath.] (Anat.) A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein. Specifically, the canal which leads from the uterus to the external orifice if the genital canal, or to the cloaca. (Zo["o]l.) ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The vagina is a muscular and tubular part of the female genital tract , which in humans extends from the vulva to the cervix . The outer vaginal opening may be partly covered by a membrane called the hymen . At the deep end, the cervix (neck of the uterus ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sexual passage of the female from the vulva to the uterus," 1680s, medical Latin, from specialized use of Latin vagina "sheath, scabbard, covering; sheath of an ear of grain, hull, husk" (plural vaginae ), from PIE *wag-ina- (cognates: Lithuanian vožiu ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) The passage leading from the opening of the vulva to the cervix of the uterus for copulation and childbirth in female mammals. 2 (context zoology English) A similar part in some invertebrates. 3 (context botany English) A ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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" [also: vaginae ...
Usage examples of vagina.
Hulke reports a case of congenital atresia of the vagina in a brunette of twenty, menstruation occurring through the urethra.
He also mentions the instance of congenital atresia of the vagina with hernia of both ovaries into the left groin in a servant of twenty, and the case of an imperforate vagina in a girl of nineteen with an undeveloped uterus.
The openings we thought were their vaginas are almost dorsal, with the cloacal openings toward the front.
Mathieson relates the history of the delivery of a living ectopic child by the vagina, with recovery of the mother.
I only once ejaculated in a vagina -- that accidentally -- and made her douche immediately.
Add to the fact that the natural swelling and lubrication around the vagina slow after you age, and loss of libido represents the female equivalent of erectile dysfunction.
The statues of Christ were equipped with a phallus for fellatio by both the men and the women, and also for insertion into the vagina of the women and the anus of the men.
Ten minutes later I was walking across town, past all the UN checkpoints and security points, with a vial of Chaga fullerenes slid into my vagina.
The fundus presses forcibly against the rectum, while the upper part of the vagina bends abruptly and forms an acute angle near the mouth of the uterus.
A similar instrument found by Gosselin had remained in the vagina thirty-six years, and was incrustated with calcareous salts.
To obtain the necessary result one had to employ a cylindrical machine covered with extremely soft skin, thick enough to fill the opening of the vagina, and long enough to reach the opening of the reservoir or case containing the foetus.
Since then her kidney function is fully restored, her liver is 70 per-cent functional and improving rapidly, the vagina has been fully relined and the atrophied right lung has been absorbed with regrowth started.
Maui, the Polynesian hero, tried to be reborn by slipping into the vagina of Great Sleeping Hina, then working his way through her body and out her mouth.
Dried blood was found around the entrance to the vagina, as well as hyperemia, or engorged blood vessels, indicating possible trauma in the tissue around and just inside the vagina.
But her other vaginas, between her eyes and on each palm, had also gone labile, their tissues swollen and flushed.