The Collaborative International Dictionary
nympha \nym"pha\, n.; pl. Nymph[ae]. [L. See Nymph a goddess.]
(Zo["o]l.) Same as Nymph, 3.
pl. (Anat.) Two folds of mucous membrane, within the labia, at the opening of the vulva.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context entomology English) A nymph. 2 (context anatomy now rare English) Each of the labia minora. 3 Each of a pair of processes in certain bivalves, to which the ends of the external ligament are attached.
Wikipedia
Nympha may refer to:
- another term for a chrysalis
- the labia minora (often in plural, nymphae)
- Nympha (Ninfa), a 5th-century virgin Christian martyr from Palermo
Usage examples of "nympha".
According to John Knott, the French traveler, Le Vaillant, said that the more coquettish among the Hottentot girls are excited by extreme vanity to practice artificial elongation of the nympha and labia.
In this line the double value of the word nympha -- used by classical poets both in the meaning of fountain and in that of the divinity of a fountain, or spring -- reminds one of that graceful playing with words which Japanese poets practice.
After labor, sloughing of the parts commenced and progressed to such an extent that in one month there were no traces of the labia, nymphae, vagina, perineum, or anus.
Petit is accredited with seeing a case which exhibited neither nymphae, clitoris, nor urinary meatus.
Mauriceau performed nymphotomy on a woman whose nymphae were so long as to render coitus difficult.
Morand quotes a case of congenital malformation of the nymphae, to which he attributed impotency.
Sir Samuel Baker is accredited in The Lancet with giving an account in Latin text of the modus operandi of a practice among the Nubian women of removing the clitoris and nymphae in the young girl, and abrading the adjacent walls of the external labia so that they would adhere and leave only a urethral aperture.
Investigation has shown that the women were obliged to stand up on account of elongated nymphae and labia, while the men sought a sitting posture on account of the termination of the urethra being on the inferior side of the base of the penis, artificially formed there in order to prevent conception.
Labat has found traces of circumcision and excision of nymphae in mummies.
The first ablation is obtained by applying fire or caustics to the nipples, the second by amputation of the breasts, one or both, the third by diverse gashes, chiefly across the breast, and the fourth by resection of the nymphae or of the nymphae and clitoris, and the superior major labia, the cicatrices of which would deform the vulva.
I was seneschal to her rival the Chatelaine Nympha, and when she brought me here to the House Absolute with her in order that we might review the accounts of the estate while she attended the rites of the philomath Phocas, the Chatelaine Leocadia entrapped me by the aid of Sancha, who--"