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vagino-|vəˈdʒaɪnəʊ| used as a comb. form of L. vāgīna in some scientific terms, as † vaginopennous, = vaginipennous; vaˈginoscope, an instrument for examining the vagina; vagino-vesical, pertaining to the vagina and the bladder. Recent Dicts. give a number of others in Med., Path., or Surg., as vagino-fixation, vaginotomy; vagino-abdominal, vagino-labial, vagino-vulvar adjs. (Cf. F. vaginolabial, -péritonéal, -vésical, etc.)
1755Johnson, Ladybird, a small red insect vaginopennous. 1825Good Study Med. (ed. 2) V. 154 Vagino-vesical prolapse. Prolapse of the vagina dragging the bladder along with it. 1866J. M. Sims Uterine Surg. 33 Dr. Routh..has detected pregnancy..by means of his vaginoscope.
▸ vaginoplasty n. Surg. repair, reconstruction, or creation of a vagina by plastic surgery; an instance of this.
1949New Gould Med. Dict. 1114/2 *Vaginoplasty, a plastic operation on the vagina. 1969Arch. Surg. 98 716/3 A method for vaginoplasty is described in which a V-shaped full-thickness skin flap is used to fill a corresponding defect in the posterior wall of the vagina. 1994I. Welsh Acid House 30 These [stages] were penectomy, castration, plastic reconstruction and vaginoplasty, the formation of an artificial vagina, constructed by creating a cavity between the prostate and the rectum. 2000BJU Internat. 86 253 In 20 patients the vaginoplasty was a one-stage procedure, undertaken at a mean (range) age of 3.6 (1–9) years, and in five patients a two-stage operation. |