(n.) A small fold of membrane, connecting the labia in the posterior part of the vulva.
(n.) The wishbone or furculum of birds.
(n.) The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.
(n.) An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the fraenum.
(n.) The forked piece between two adjacent fingers, to which the front and back portions are sewed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Posterior fourchette lacerations occurred with the same frequency in sexually abused adolescents and sexually active controls adolescents.
(2) Colposcopic magnification allowed examiners to characterize these findings as acute mounting injuries, typically seen at 3, 6, and 9 o'clock on the posterior fourchette and consisting chiefly of lacerations, ecchymosis, and swelling.
(3) The application of toluidine blue dye to highlight posterior fourchette lacerations is an important addition to tools already used in the evaluation of the sexually abused patient.
(4) The anaerobic urethral flora varied slightly from week to week, and a similar anaerobic flora was isolated from the introitus, fourchette, and cutaneous perineum.
(5) To provide normative data, we measured anogenital distances in 115 infants of 25 to 42 weeks gestational age and 10 pregnant women, including anus to fourchette (AF), anus to base of the clitoris (AC), and fourchette to base of the clitoris (FC).
(6) Unusual findings included posterior fourchette friability (4.7%), anterior hymenal clefts (1.2%), and notches of the hymen (6%).
(7) Even the injuries to the posterior fourchettes healed with minimal scar tissue and left only the slightest evidence of the trauma.
(8) Specific findings included increased vascularity (44%), midline avascular areas (27%), "ragged" posterior fourchette epithelium (18%), notch configuration of the posterior fourchette (10%), delicate tethers between the hymen and perihymen (14%), hymenal bumps between the 3 and 9 o'clock positions (11%), and asymmetry of the hymenal tissue (9%).
(9) This study investigated the use of toluidine blue dye in the pediatric (0 to 10 years) and adolescent (11 to 18 years) patients to detect posterior fourchette lacerations in sexually abused and control populations.
(10) The presence of posterior fourchette lacerations in the pediatric aged patient is strongly suggestive of sexual abuse.
(11) Posterior fourchette lacerations are suggestive of sexual assault, and toluidine blue dye has increased the detection of these lacerations in adult rape victims.
(12) Four of the six had changes in the area of the posterior fourchette that were consistent with previous trauma.
(13) Toluidine blue increases the detection of posterior fourchette lacerations in children and adolescents (P less than .001, Fisher exact test).
(14) Vaginal lacerations focus primarily around the posterior fourchette, although the few most serious ones tend to be high in the vault.
(15) Common genital finding included erythema of the vestibule (56%), periurethral bands (50.6%), labial adhesions (38.9%), lymphoid follicles on the fossa navicularis (33.7%), posterior fourchette midline avascular areas (25.6%), and urethral dilation with labial traction (14.9%).
(16) The areas most frequently afflicted with neoplasia were: one or both labia (45%), interlabial folds (27%), perineum-fourchette (15%), and perianal skin (10%).
(17) Six cases involving six sisters, all of whom were sexually molested, are presented to illustrate the association between labial adhesions and posterior fourchette injuries in sexually abused children.
(18) Two women in their early menopausal years were evaluated for a persistent ulcerative lesion located on the vulvar vestibular mucosa at the fourchette.
Perineum
Definition:
(n.) The region which is included within the outlet of the pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Exteriorization is accomplished by mobilizing 2 lateral skin flaps from the perineum and joining them with the inverted U flap to reach the vagina.
(2) Pelvic nerve: vagina, cervix, and perineal skin; hypogastric nerve: cervix and proximal three fifths of the uterus; pudendal nerve: skin of perineum, inner thigh, and clitoral sheath.
(3) Early operation enables the child to learn to use its perineum.
(4) Radiation was delivered to the perineum and pelvis to a total dose of 4,080 cGy in 4.5-5 weeks.
(5) He remained in complete remission for 18 mo, when he developed a chloroma in the perineum.
(6) A 14-year-old boy with Langerhans cell histiocytosis of the spinal cord who presented with progressive enlarged bilateral inguinal masses, difficulty in urination, walking and paresthesia in the left lower extremity and perineum is reported.
(7) All infants underwent oropharyngeal suctioning with a DeLee catheter while the head was still on the perineum.
(8) Poor perineal healing is a major complication of total or partial pelvic exenteration especially when the pelvis and perineum have previously been irradiated.
(9) There was a significant difference between the groups in the position of the perineum with respect to the ischial tuberosities at rest (p less than 0.025) and on defaecation straining (p less than 0.005).
(10) Two patients with a necrotizing soft tissue infection of the scrotum and perineum are described.
(11) The flora of the anterior urethra is strongly correlated to that of the perineum (37.1%), as well as that of the bladder (52.6%).
(12) Among others, a modified suture technique for correcting the combined laceration of Perineum-Ampulla recti-areal (third degree perineal laceration) and a modification of the method for correcting pneumovagina are described.
(13) We report the results of a procedure aimed at correcting the disorders of rectal and perineal tone responsible for the descending perineum syndrome (DPS).
(14) A characteristic urodynamic pattern, not previously described, was observed, consisting of choreiform contractions of the abdominal perineal floor muscles during filling with selective suppression of choreiform contractions in the perineum during detrusor contraction.
(15) A simplified approach to the surgical treatment of hidradenitis supprativa of the groin and perineum is presented.
(16) Dyspareunia measured on an analogue scale relative to pre-pregnancy values (mean values) was significantly greater three months after a mediolateral episiotomy (35%) than after vaginal delivery with intact perineum (9%) or Caesarean Section (16%) and similar to the value following second degree perineal laceration (29%).
(17) Four patients with AIDS who developed progressive ulcerative mucocutaneous lesions of the genitals, perineum, perianal region, or finger due to acyclovir-resistant, thymidine-kinase (TK)-negative strains of HSV-2.
(18) The presence of quadriplegia correlated with Klebsiella colonization and also with the presence of positive Klebsiella cultures from the urethra and perineum.
(19) At this site this rare tumour must be distinguished from basal cell carcinoma of the perineum and from malignant basaloid (cloacogenic) carcinoma of the anal canal.
(20) Radiotherapy (RT) was started simultaneously: 36 Gy was given in 4 weeks to the anal region with perineum and the lower and middle pelvis, including inguinal and external iliac nodes.