Word Meanings - VAGINAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• TEMPORALNESS
  Worldliness. Cotgrave.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• GENITALS
  The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.
• CANAL
  A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• MEMBRANE
  A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids. Note: The term is also often applied to the thin, expanded parts, of
• SHEATHLESS
  Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.
• THECAL
  Of or pertaining to a theca; as, a thecal abscess.
• TEMPORALTY
  1. The laity; secular people. Abp. Abbot. 2. A secular possession; a temporality.
• VAGINATE; VAGINATED
  Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf.
• CANALICULATE; CANALICULATED
  Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.
• SHEATHED
  Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate. (more info) 1. Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• MEMBRANEOUS
  See MEMBRANOUS
• CANALIZATION
  Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.
• VAGINA
  The terminal part of the oviduct in insects and various other invertebrates. See Illust., of Spermatheca. (more info) A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein. Specifically, the canal which leads from the uterus to the external orifice
• VAGINAL
  Of or pertaining to the vagina of the genital canal; as, the vaginal artery. (more info) 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.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• SHEATHY
  Forming or resembling a sheath or case. Sir T. Browne.
• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• URINOGENITAL
  Pertaining to the urinary and genital organs; genitourinary; urogenital; as, the urinogenital canal.
• DECANAL
  Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• VESICOVAGINAL
  Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.
• EVAGINATION
  The act of unsheathing.
• INSHEATHE
  To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• SUPRAVAGINAL
  Situated above or outside a sheath or vaginal membrane.
• BASIC PROCESS
  A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.