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Vaginal

Vaginal \Vag"i*nal\, a. [Cf. F. vaginal.]

  1. Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath; thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the temporal bone.

  2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the vagina of the genital canal; as, the vaginal artery.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vaginal

1726, "pertaining to a sheath," from vagina + -al (1). From 1800 as "pertaining to the vagina of a female." Related: Vaginally.

Wiktionary
vaginal

a. Of, relating to, or affecting the vagina.

WordNet
vaginal

adj. of or relating to the vagina; "vaginal suppository"

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "vaginal".

Bonnain and Payne have observed analogous cases of this abnormality of the vaginal opening and subsequent accouchement by the anus.

The hymen was not intact, and abrasions along the vaginal wall were visible.

He might abuse her in some other way, such as by inserting his fingers or an object to demonstrate his control and contempt, and in fact, we soon learned of the vaginal abrasions and bruising.

He wiped the flowing vaginal exudate aside, did so again, but the expected asterisk was not to be found!

Lacerations of the urethra from urethral coitus in instances of vaginal atresia or imperforate hymen may also excite serious hemorrhage.

Twice now she has returned directly to me from swimming with him, carrying his spermatozoa in her vaginal collectors.

When had they last bathed their genitalia, did small grains of faecal matter still cling to their anuses as they prescribed some antibiotic for a streptococcal throat, did the odour of illicit sex acts infest their underwear as they drove home from the hospital, the traces of smegma and vaginal mucus on their hands marrying with the splashed engine coolant of unexpected car-crashes?

After a thorough cleansing of the vaginal surfaces of mucus, by means of the warm or hot water, it is sometimes advisable to inject remedial fluids.

They loved anal sex as dearly as they did vaginal, and Marly had warned it that it was possible, entirely possible that each of them would need her there before the night was out.

The illustrious John Hunter advised a man afflicted with hypospadias to impregnate his wife by vaginal injections of semen in water with an ordinary syringe, and, in spite of the simplicity of this method, the attempt was followed by a successful issue.

Jacobson cites a case of vaginal lithotomy in a patient six and a half months pregnant, with normal delivery at full term.

In a third instance, a young girl, whose lover had violent connection with her while she was in an exaggerated lithotomy position, suffered a large tear of the right vaginal wall.

Retention of the menses may result from malformation of the vaginal canal, which sometimes terminates before it reaches the womb, being simply a short, closed sac.

After washing this mass it was found to be a portion of the vaginal parietes and the fleshy body of the neck of the uterus.

FBI criminal profiling experience finds a frequent component of sexual murder to be the insertion of foreign objects into the vaginal and anal cavities of victims.