Crossword clues for pessary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pessary \Pes"sa*ry\, n.; pl. Pessaries. [L. pessarium, pessum, pessus, Gr. ?: cf. F. pessaire.] (Med.)
An instrument or device to be introduced into and worn in the vagina, to support the uterus, or remedy a malposition.
A medicinal substance in the form of a bolus or mass, designed for introduction into the vagina; a vaginal suppository.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Late Latin pessarium, from Greek pessarion "medicated tampon of wool or lint," diminutive of pessos "pessary," earlier "oval stone used in games," perhaps of Semitic origin.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A medical device similar to the outer ring of a contraceptive diaphragm, most commonly used to support a displaced uterus; also called therapeutic pessary. 2 (context contraception English) A diaphragm. 3 (context medicine English) A vaginal suppository.
WordNet
n. a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix [syn: diaphragm, contraceptive diaphragm]
Wikipedia
A pessary is a medical device inserted into the vagina, either to provide structural support, or as a method of delivering medication.
Usage examples of "pessary".
I extended my arm stiffly to Grier who took the pessary and inserted it in the uterus.
Each of them had worn a pessary, artificial tissues that lined the vagina and protected against pregnancy and disease.
Because she wore no pessary, the deep clutching of her vulva around him was direct and intense, a silky, heavenly slickness that drew him on and on.
Anne pushed a pessary, made from the remains of the honey not used in the simple, into the girl.
Moss urgently dispatched Tom to find honey and the things they would need to make the pessary, while Anne waited quietly in the shadows behind the press of women crowding around the queen.
He knew she was going to Olympe for advice-the smell of the vinegar she used was a sharp, lingering fragrance in the luminous darkness-but he also knew that pessary sponges, and lambskins, and the annoyance of coitus interruptus all failed as often as they succeeded.
Feebleness of the constitution, impoverishment of the blood, a scrofulous diathesis, want of exercise, uncleanliness, tight lacing, disappointment, excessive excitement of the passions, the use of pessaries for displacement of the uterus, overwork, and taking cold, all predispose the cervical membrane to chronic ulceration.
The use of pessaries, excessive sexual indulgence, injuries occasioned by giving birth to children, congestions, enlargements and displacements, may all operate as causes.
I pushed in a couple of pessaries, untied the sack from my middle and pulled my shirt over my head.
He was surrounded by packets of the powder and, further along the bench, were orderly piles of pessaries which he had made by filling cellophane cylinders with boric acid.
Then she confided in her son José Arcadio and the latter sent her the pessaries from Rome along with a pamphlet explaining their use, which she flushed down the toilet after committing it to memory so that no one would learn the nature of her troubles.
Since Aureliano Segundo had no other pictures except those of his wedding and the copies were all in the family album, he kept searching all through the house when his wife was not looking, and finally, in the bottom of the dresser, he came across a half-dozen pessaries in their original boxes.
For her part, Fernanda interpreted the disappearance as a reprisal by the invisible doctors and she sewed a pocket of casing to the inside of her camisole where she kept the new pessaries that her son sent her.
It was then that he understood that for all of the magical pessaries that he destroyed and all the conjuring hens that he soaked, the single and sad piece of truth was that he was dying.
At first she thought it was some business of the invisible doctors, like the disappearance of the pessaries, and she even started a letter to them begging them to leave her alone, but she had to interrupt it to do something and when she went back to her room she not only did not find the letter she had started but she had forgotten the reason for writing it.