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Vaginal

Definition: Vaginal

Vaginal

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the vagina; "vaginal suppository".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Vaginal \Vag"i*nal\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression vaginal.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: Vaginal

DomainDefinitions

Health

Of or having to do with the vagina, the birth canal. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Vaginal

English words defined with "vaginal": birth canalDES, diethylstilbesterol, dildo, douche, douche bagintroituslithotomy positionpelvic inflammatory disease, pelvimetry, PIDstilbesterol, Subvaginal, Supravaginalvaginal artery, vaginal birth, vaginal discharge, vaginal smear. (references)
Specialty definitions using "vaginal": Abortion, Threatenedbacterial vaginosisChlorquinaldolHysterectomy, Vaginalαναλογία των φύλωνNifuratel, Nonoxynol, Nuvaringrainbow kisssafer sex, Smith pessary, Sperm Immobilizing Agents, Spermatocidal Agentsthreeway woman , Trial of Labor, Trichomonas vaginalisUterine HemorrhageVaginal Birth after Cesarean, vaginal diphtheria, Vaginal Fistula, vaginal hysterectomy, vaginal method, Vaginal Neoplasms, vaginal ring, Vaginal Smears, vaginal sponge, Vaginosis. (references)
Etymologies containing "vaginal": Uterovaginal. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Vaginal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (vaginal), Danish (vaginal), French (vaginal), German (vaginal), Portuguese (vaginal), Spanish (vaginal), Swedish (vaginal).

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Modern Usage: Vaginal

DomainUsage

Screenplays

In a sense, yes. My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

This vaginal discharge won't let us partake in the party. (Van Wilder; writing credit: Brent Goldberg; David Wagner)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Vaginal

DomainTitle

References

  

Books

  • 21st Century Complete Medical Guide to Vaginal Cancer and Vulvar Cancer - Authoritative Government Documents and Clinical References for Patients and Physicians with Practical Information on Diagnosis and Treatment Options (reference)

  • A Hand in the Bush: The Fine Art of Vaginal Fisting (reference)

  • Sex at Risk: Lifetime Number of Partners, Frequency of Intercourse and the Low AIDS Risk of Vaginal Intercourse (reference)

  • The Vaginal Birth After Cesarean Experience: Birth Stories by Parents and Professionals (reference)

  • Vaginal Politics (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Vaginal

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Unusual vaginal discharge or itching. (references)

For instance, estrogen creams are used for vaginal dryness. (references)

There are products that can be used to stop vaginal dryness. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

In January the authorities accused Alexandre de Oliveira of Minas Gerais of rape after he took his infant daughter to the hospital for vaginal bleeding. (references)

Honduras

According to her testimony, the woman was taken to and held naked at the prison where prison authorities performed a vaginal inspection despite the woman's assertions that she was pregnant. (references)

Turkey

Commonly employed methods of torture reported by the HRF's treatment centers include: Systematic beatings; stripping and blindfolding; exposure to extreme cold or high-pressure cold water hoses; electric shocks; beatings on the soles of the feet (falaka) and genitalia; hanging by the arms; food and sleep deprivation; heavy weights hung on the body; water dripped onto the head; burns; hanging sandbags on the neck; near-suffocation by placing bags over the head; vaginal and anal rape with truncheons and, in some instances, gun barrels; squeezing and twisting of testicles; and other forms of sexual abuse. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Vaginal

"Vaginal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.63% of the time. "Vaginal" is used about 270 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)99.63%26917,948
Noun (singular)0.37%1339,140
                    Total100.00%270N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Vaginal

Expressions using "vaginal": Estrace Vaginal Cream Ortho Dienestrol Vaginal Cream vaginal artery vaginal birth Vaginal Birth after Cesarean vaginal cramp vaginal diphtheria vaginal discharge Vaginal disorders vaginal douche Vaginal Dryness Vaginal Fistula vaginal hysterectomy Vaginal Inflammation vaginal lotion vaginal method Vaginal Neoplasms vaginal ring vaginal smear Vaginal Smears vaginal sponge. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "vaginal": penile-vaginal, pouch-vaginal, vulva-vaginal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vaginal

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

vaginal discharge

710

vaginal infection

623

vaginal yeast infection

486

vaginal

450

vaginal cum shot

430

vaginal dryness

421

vaginal bleeding

309

vaginal itching

274

vaginal wart

245

vaginal odor

242
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vaginal

Language Translations for "vaginal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vaginal, i vaginës. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مهبلي, ‏غمدي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

влагалищен. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

阴" (vagina). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vaginální, poševní. (various references)

   

Danish

  

vaginal. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vaginaal. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vaginaalinen, emätin-. (various references)

   

French

  

vaginal. (various references)

   

German

  

vaginal. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κολπικός (sinusal). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

רתיקי. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hüvelyi. (various references)

   

Italian

  

vaginale. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

トリコモナス膣炎 (TNT, trick, trick play, trick work, trickster, tricky, tricolore, trinitrotoluen, Trinity, trip, trip meter, Tripper, tripping, vaginal trichomoniasis), 悪露 (lochia, post-natal vaginal discharge), カンジダ膣炎 (border, Cambodia, Cambrian, campaign, camphor, candidal vaginitis, cantabile, cantaloupe, cantata, canvas, canzone, cedilla, cheat, comma, company, company economist, company magazine, company paper, company union, conversation, country, country and western, country club, country music, country risk, country wear, cunning, fund raising, Kant, school, torch, vaginal yeast infection). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おろ (lochia, post-natal vaginal discharge), トリコモナスちつえ" (vaginal trichomoniasis), カンジダちつえ" (candidal vaginitis, vaginal yeast infection). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(Qualities, Quality, vagina). (various references)

   

Manx

  

fineagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aginalvay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

vaginal. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вагинальный, влагалищный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vaginalan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vaginal. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vaginal. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

vajinal. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

піхвовий. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Vaginal

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

vaginalis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Vaginal

Derivations

Words beginning with "vaginal": vaginally. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Vaginal"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "vaginal" (pronounced vujī"nul)
4-ī" n u lfinal, polyvinyl, semifinal, spinal, Vinal, vinyl.
3-n u labdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, adrenal, anal, annal, annul, Arsenal, atonal, attitudinal, autumnal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, carnal, channel, coeducational, collisional, Colonel, communal, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, cornel, correctional, criminal, Darnel, delusional, denominational, departmental, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, diurnal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, empanel, erosional, eternal, exceptional, external, factional, faunal, fennel, fictional, flannel, fluxional, foundational, fractional, fraternal, functional, funnel, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, impersonal, improvisational, infernal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, internal, international, interpersonal, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, journal, jurisdictional, juvenile, kennel, kernel, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, maternal, medicinal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nocturnal, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, panel, paternal, penal, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, renal, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, seminal, sensational, sentinel, shrapnel, signal, situational, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, tonal, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, tribunal, tunnel, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, venal, vernal, virginal, vocational.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Vaginal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-l-n-v"

-1 letter: agnail, gavial, laving, vagina.

-2 letters: again, alang, algin, align, anvil, avail, avian, lagan, lanai, liana, liang, ligan, linga, naval, nival, vagal, vinal.

-3 letters: agin, alan, alga, anal, anga, anil, gain, gala, glia, lain, lang, lava, ling, nail, vagi, vail, vain, vang, vial, viga, vina.

-4 letters: aal, aga, ail, ain, ala, ana, ani, ava, gal, gan, gin, lag, lav, lin, nag, nil, van, via, vig.

-5 letters: aa, ag, ai, al, an, in, la, li, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-l-n-v"
 

+1 letter: availing, galivant, galvanic.

 

+2 letters: galivants, gallivant, galvanise, galvanism, galvanize, navigable, navigably, salvaging, vaginally, valancing, valuating, vulgarian.

 

+3 letters: evaluating, galivanted, gallivants, galvanised, galvanises, galvanisms, galvanized, galvanizer, galvanizes, palavering, reavailing, salivating, travailing, unavailing, validating, vulgarians.

 

+4 letters: alleviating, autoclaving, avalanching, cavaliering, devaluating, evangelical, galavanting, galivanting, gallivanted, galvanising, galvanizers, galvanizing, laborsaving, revaluating, vacillating, vandalising, vandalizing.

 

+5 letters: evangelicals, gallivanting, galvanically, invalidating, navigability, navigational, reevaluating, revalidating, transvaluing, unavailingly, vegetational.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Vaginal


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

56 61 67 69 6E 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100001 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#97 &#103 &#105 &#110 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0061 0067 0069 006E 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

56677375806778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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