dyspareunia

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As a result, most women continue to endure dyspareunia, which is one of the many sexual problems that women may encounter.

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  • Lower abdominal and pelvic pain, cramping menstrual pains (dysmenorrhea), painful sexual intercourse (dyspareunia) and infertility are well recognized symptoms of endometriosis. —  WebWire | Recent Headlines
  • Women who have previously experienced some discomfort or even pain during intercourse (dyspareunia) find that Shapes can help alleviate that pain. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Vulvar vestibulitis syndrome, which represents one of the major cause of dyspareunia, is a puzzling clinical entity. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • I remember one of my female friends asking a lecturer about dyspareunia, eliciting titters from some of the students and sidelong glances at her blushing boyfriend. —  Balls and Walnuts
  • Postoperative complications included: voiding difficulty in 7 women (8\%), recurrent UTI in 9 (10\%), de novo urgency incontinence in 9 (10\%) and dyspareunia for a defect healing, with vaginal protrusion of the mesh, in two patients. —  Health News from Medical News Today
 

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  1. New Latin, from Greek δυσ-, hard, +πάρευνος, lying beside, from παρά, beside, + εὐνή, bed.
 

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