Word Meanings - VAGINISMUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina, often rendering copulation impossible.

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• SPASMODIC
  A medicine for spasm.
• IMPOSSIBLE
  An impossibility. "Madam," quoth he, "this were an impossible!" Chaucer.
• VAGINATE; VAGINATED
  Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf.
• COPULATION
  1. The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction. Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas. Johnson. 2. The coming together of male and female in the act of generation; sexual union; coition.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• PAINFUL
  1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing Addison. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking;
• 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.
• CONTRACTION
  The process of shortening an operation. 3. The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease. 4. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word
• VAGINANT
  Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing. Vaginant leaf , a leaf investing the stem or branch by its base, which has the form of a tube.
• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
• RENDERABLE
  Capable of being rendered.
• RENDERER
  1. One who renders. 2. A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered.
• RENDERING
  The act of one who renders, or that which is rendered. Specifically: A version; translation; as, the rendering of the Hebrew text. Lowth. In art, the presentation, expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part. The act of laying
• RENDER
  1. A surrender. Shak. 2. A return; a payment of rent. In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demains. Blackstone. 3. An account given; a statement. Shak.
• OFTENSITH
  Frequently; often. For whom I sighed have so oftensith. Gascoigne.
• OFTENTIMES
  Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth.
• VAGINATI
  A tribe of birds comprising the sheathbills.
• OFTENTIDE
  Frequently; often. Robert of Brunne.
• SPASMODICAL
  See ADV
• VESICOVAGINAL
  Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.
• EVAGINATION
  The act of unsheathing.
• SUPRAVAGINAL
  Situated above or outside a sheath or vaginal membrane.
• MISRENDER
  To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.
• EVAGINATE
  Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated; as, an evaginate membrane.
• INVAGINATE; INVAGINATED
  Sheathed. Having one portion of a hollow organ drawn back within another portion.
• SURRENDER
  To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
• SURRENDEROR
  One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
• RECTOVAGINAL
  Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the vagina.
• UNOFTEN
  Not often.
• VULVOVAGINAL
  Pertaining both to the vulva and the vagina.
• PRENDER
  The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered. Burrill.