单词 | vaginal |
释义 | vaginaladj.n. A. adj. 1. a. Anatomy. Of the nature of a sheath; spec. designating the serous membrane (tunica vaginalis) covering the testicle. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [adjective] > outer covering thick-skinned1545 investing1615 vaginal1653 sheathed1664 cortical1677 vaginated1770 vaginate1777 tegumental1822 tegumentary1828 calycine1872 walled1875 tunicary1900 1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations iv. 15 Fashion in your minde a very slender plant, whose knobby roots may represent the cluster of yolks, and its trunk the litle vaginal, or sheath-like pipe. 1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 295 The vaginal coat of the testicle. 1798 R. Hooper Compendious Med. Dict. at Bursæ mucosæ They are divided into vaginal, which are long and cover a tendon; and vesicular, which are round. 1899 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon (at cited word) Vaginal coat of the eye, capsule of Tenon. 2010 Jrnl. Zoo & Wildlife Med. 41 169 Postmortem examination and histopathology revealed necrotizing fasciitis of the penis, vaginal tunic, and subcutaneous perineal and perianal tissues. b. Botany. Designating a sheath enclosing a stem, petiole, or other part of a plant; enclosed in such a sheath; (occasionally) forming such a sheath (cf. vaginant adj.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > sheathing socket?1711 vaginant1760 sheathing1778 vaginal1792 1792 W. Woodville Med. Bot. II. 205 The leaves of the stalk proceed from the vaginal sheaths at the joints. 1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. §75 The vaginal petiolar region is more or less distinctly evident in many Monocotyledonous leaves. 2001 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 88 2148/1 Stipules in Piperaceae and Saururaceae form a ligule-like structure on the adaxial side of the leaf base (i.e., the vaginal lobe, the ochrea-like stipule, or the intrapetiolar stipule of some authors) and a sheath that fuses on the opposite side of the leaf. 2. a. Of or relating to the vagina (vagina n. 1a).See also vaginal smear at smear n. 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [adjective] > vagina vaginal1681 cuntyc1890 1681 J. Browne Compl. Treat. Muscles 82 It is judged that it [sc. another pair of Muscles] was appointed rather for the contracting of the Vaginal Orifice, than for erecting the Clitoris. 1783 C. Armstrong Ess. Virulent Gonorrhoea Females 24 Emollient, or sedative injections, ought therefore to be thrown up warm, twice or thrice a day, so as to cleanse out the whole vaginal canal. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 155 The vaginal polypus sometimes dispersed by stimulants and astringents. 1840 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (1842) 314 The Uterine and Vaginal arteries of the female are derived from the internal iliac, or Ischiatic arteries. 1855 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. (new Amer. ed.) 36 The vaginal canal becomes much contracted in advanced life. 1872 T. G. Thomas Pract. Treat. Dis. Women (ed. 3) i. 52 Sim's instrument, on the other hand, elevates the posterior vaginal wall. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. xv. 644 Vaginal and labial herniæ may be mistaken for the mucous cysts of those parts. 1977 P. Leech Baby & Child 24 It is for the near-end of her struggle that we should celebrate the ‘crowning’ when that dark-wet hair at last appears at the vaginal opening. 2005 Health Plus Jan. 100/1 The herbs..have both been shown to help restore hormonal balance and improve vaginal dryness. b. Performed or occurring by way of the vagina, as vaginal birth, vaginal delivery, vaginal hysterectomy, etc. ΚΠ 1790 J. Heath tr. J. L. Baudelocque Syst. Midwifery III. 351 It seems to me useless to distinguish it [sc. the Cesarean operation] into abdominal and vaginal, as has been done lately. 1825 D. D. Davis Elements Operative Midwifery 96 The operation of vaginal hysterotomy should never be had recourse to until after the failure of every fair attempt to remove impediments to the dilatation of the orifice of the uterus. 1875 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 69 240 The author performed this operation [sc. Cæsarean section] upon a woman..in whom vaginal delivery was impracticable, by reason of the pelvis being filled with a large fibro-cartilaginous tumour. 1880 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 32 84 Lane's vaginal hysterectomy was done for recurrent epithelioma. 1912 Bull. Lying-in Hosp. City N.Y. 8 93 It requires, however, a nicety of judgment..to distinguish clearly the choice between abdominal and vaginal birth. 1991 Boston Globe 22 Sept. (Mag.) 32/2 She delivered both babies in routine vaginal births. 2006 Mother & Baby Aug. 16/1 I'd like to try for a vaginal delivery but one twin is transverse, so I'll probably need a caesarean. c. Of an instrument: used to examine, or perform a procedure upon, the vagina. Also: administered or used by insertion into the vagina. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [adjective] > used on specific part urinary1688 vaginal1840 urethral1852 1840 J. Blundell & T. Castle Observ. Dis. Women xx. 61 With a good speculum and a vaginal dilator, in women who have had a large family, it is very easy to obtain access to the upper part of the vagina in front, where the opening lies. 1846 F. Brittan tr. J. F. Malgaigne Man. Operative Surg. 556 Some..are called vaginal pessaries; the others, called uterine pessaries. 1885 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Dis. Women & Children 18 1229 Sublimate injections, vaginal and uterine, are used for purposes of disinfection. 1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons) 411 Vaginal and uterine instruments. 1934 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 19 May 20/4 Zonite vaginal suppositories in dainty white greaseless cones. For married and single ladies. 2007 Bella 13 Mar. 42/1 Progestogen-only vaginal rings are being researched as well. d. Designating sexual activity involving penetration of the vagina; of or relating to this; as vaginal intercourse, vaginal orgasm, vaginal sex, etc.Frequently contrasted with anal, clitoral, oral, etc. ΚΠ 1849 Brit. Rec. Obstetr. Med. & Surg. Jan. 24 The talented author..contends that vulval rape should be punished equally with vaginal rape. 1887 Lancet 12 Mar. 527/1 He could confirm the remark as to the possibility of pregnancy occurring without vaginal intercourse. 1941 R. L. Dickinson in G. W. Henry Sex Variants 1109 From the genital findings one can predicate..vaginal penetration by penis or finger play and erotic feelings. 1987 Washington Post 5 Feb. d1/3 The virus is transmitted through oral, anal and vaginal sex. 2012 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Sept. 10/2 Her view that vaginal orgasms are superior to the clitoral kind. A vaginal artery. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > vagina > other parts of vaginal1801 semi-bulb1853 Gräfenberg spot1981 G-spot1982 1801 A. Scott tr. A. Murray Descr. Arteries Human Body ii. 113 The artery frequently rises by itself from the hypogastric, and chiefly from the middle hæmorrhoidal; which, under the name of vaginal [L. vaginalis], is extensively distributed upon the vagina, as far as its external parts. 1915 New Orleans Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 68 153 In tying the iliacs the ligature must be applied close to the bifurcation.., so as not miss any branches, especially the vaginals. Compounds vaginal deodorant n. a deodorant, typically in the form of a spray, intended to eliminate vaginal odours. ΚΠ 1939 Los Angeles Times 14 May (Sunday Mag. section) 22/3 A normal, healthy woman..should have no use or need for vaginal deodorants. Her secretions should be odorless. 2003 Pulse (Nexis) 21 July 58 Panty-liners, vaginal deodorants, condoms and spermicides can all sensitise the skin. vaginal plug n. (a) a tampon or pessary inserted into the vagina to control haemorrhage from the uterus or for various other medical and non-medical purposes (now chiefly historical); (b) Zoology (in rodents and various other animals) a mass of coagulated seminal fluid formed in the female's vagina after mating. ΚΠ 1832 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 17 345 It is fortunate that we possess, when consulted in proper time, an expedient as powerful as it is simple: we mean the vaginal plug. 1895 Amer. Naturalist 29 770 Twenty to thirty hours after copulation [in mice] the vaginal plug softens and falls out. 1970 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 20 Sept. a8/6 Over the years, women have used wool soaked with various substances such as sour oil, cedar gum, and even as recently as 1943, rancid butter as a vaginal plug. 1978 Population & Devel. Rev. 4 453 Vaginal plugs and occlusive pessaries..were of wool smeared with various substances, such as myrtle oil and white lead. 2010 New Yorker 30 Aug. 70/3 He showed her how to detect vaginal plugs, the evidence of successful copulation. vaginal process [after post-classical Latin processus vaginalis (1713 or earlier)] Anatomy (a) the bony sheath partly surrounding the base of the styloid process of the temporal bone (now rare); (b) an outpouching of peritoneum through the inguinal canal, from which the serous membrane (tunica vaginalis) covering the testicle is derived; (c) either of a pair of plates of the sphenoid bone which articulate with the alae (wings) of the vomer. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > bones of temple squamous bone?1541 temporal?1541 shaft1552 vaginal process1726 mastoid process1732 supertemporal1834 mastoid1840 stylohyal1846 squamosal1848 squamosal bone1849 tympanohyal1873 1726 A. Monro Anat. Humane Bones 164 The Cavity between the Zygomatic, Auditory and vaginal Process. 1845 Monthly Jrnl. Med. Sci. Oct. 726 The water must here have been contained in the vaginal process, which had retained their original communication with the peritoneum. 1857 L. Holden Human Osteol. (ed. 2) 76 These two plates are termed the ‘vaginal processes’, and their free edges rise just enough to allow the edges of the vomer to slide beneath them. 1904 E. H. Taylor Treat. Appl. Anat. 409 This variety [of inguinal hernia] depends upon the failure of the vaginal process of the peritoneum to become obliterated. 2010 I. Shaw et al. Oxf. Textbk. Anaesthesia Oral & Maxillofacial Surg. vi. 73/2 The vomerovaginal canal lies between the upper surface of the vaginal process of the sphenoid bone and the ala of the vomer. Derivatives vaˈginally adv. by way of the vagina (cf. per vaginam adv.); in the vagina. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [adverb] > vagina per vaginam1706 vaginally1861 1861 Edinb. Med. Jrnl. 7 i. 594 He had one patient under treatment who could not bear at first to allow herself to be examined vaginally without chloroform, because of the pain experienced from the touch of the finger. 1929 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 18 245 We are very slow to examine primiparae vaginally. 1966 W. H. Masters & V. E. Johnson Human Sexual Response ix. 137 A subjective awareness of tachycardia described frequently as feeling the heartbeat vaginally. 2010 Wall St. Jrnl. 4 May d2/6 About 74% of women who have had a c-section and try to deliver vaginally are able to do so. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1653 |
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