Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to both the uterus and the vagina.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Pertaining to both the uterus and the vagina.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective biology Pertaining to the uterus and vagina, or the connection between them.

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Examples

  • I recall assisting on one as a medical student in an 84 y/o woman who also had a uterovaginal prolapse.

    I am anxious! princesa 2007

  • The hemorrhoidal plexus (plexus hæmorrhoidalis) surrounds the rectum, and communicates in front with the vesical plexus in the male, and the uterovaginal plexus in the female.

    VII. The Veins. 3d. The Veins of the Lower Extremity, Abdomen, and Pelvis 1918

  • In a case reported by Bailey 12.246 a middle-aged woman, while sliding down a hay-stack, struck directly upon a pitchfork handle which entered the vagina; the whole weight of the woman was successfully maintained by the cellular tissue of the uterovaginal culdesac.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • In a case reported by Bailey a middle-aged woman, while sliding down a hay-stack, struck directly upon a pitchfork handle which entered the vagina; the whole weight of the woman was successfully maintained by the cellular tissue of the uterovaginal culdesac.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • 83, The uterovaginal plexus lies on the dorsal (medial) surface of the uterine vessels, lateral to the sacrouterine ligaments 'insertion into the uterus.

    In Defense of the Hysterectomy aka TBTAM 2007

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