(n.) A fold of muscous membrane often found at the orifice of the vagina; the vaginal membrane.
(n.) A fabulous deity; according to some, the son of Apollo and Urania, according to others, of Bacchus and Venus. He was the god of marriage, and presided over nuptial solemnities.
(n.) Marriage; union as if by marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hymen was not penetrated as a result of intromission and therefore the site of ejaculation would have been in the urogenital canal of the 4 primigravid elephants.
(2) Fear of hymen traumatization in practice is stronger than fear to miss some gynecological diseases.
(3) In addition, four of the girls' hymens had thickened, irregular edges or other changes that were considered abnormal.
(4) Pregnancies with intact hymen respectiverly without immissio penis are very events.
(5) They include questions as to whether causes other than abuse, such as masturbation, infection or the use of other instruments, could have damaged the hymen or vagina.
(6) In four patients presenting with imperforate hymen, the hymen was excised by CO2 laser under local anesthesia.
(7) Where no hymen was visible, we have found in a limited experience that the rectal opening was high in the pelvis in some degree of the so-called cloacal deformity.
(8) The interpretation revealed 'hymenal' or retarding primary structures in the young female subject.
(9) Out of these cases, 44.63% presented a complete hymen and only in 13.30% of the cases a characterized rape was attested to.
(10) The ages at first conception of 4 pregnant elephants with intact hymenal membranes were 10, 12, 13 and 14 years.
(11) In only 9.37% of the complaints for seduction the hymen presented recent ruptures.
(12) The next category contains entities that have an abnormal appearance: ambiguous genitalia, periurethral cysts of the newborn, hymenal variants, and agglutination of the labia and vulva.
(13) Three typical cases are reported, two in children of 14 years and one in a women of 20 years, who were all treated for imperforate hymen and haematocolpos.
(14) Be it the traditional midwife checking for a hymen on a bride's wedding night, or a forensics expert or doctor called in after a prospective bridegroom's suspicions, young women are forced to spread their legs to appease the god of virginity.
(15) A case of Rokitansky syndrome is described where the typical anomalies of the entity were associated with cribriform hymen.
(16) Forty-six records of infant girls with so-called imperforate anus have been reviewed to determine the position of the rectal opening in relation to the hymen.
(17) The hymenal orifice opened more frequently during the knee-chest (95.2%) and the labial traction (90.5%) methods than with the supine separation (79.3%) approach.
(18) The presence of anterior opening, posterior opening, hymenal band or almost imperforate hymen may interfere with free vaginal discharge.
(19) Anatomically descriptive terms are required when one is asked to comment on the hymen of the sexually abused prepubertal child.
(20) Hymenal diameter was slightly greater in group 1 than 2 but not 3.
Hymn
Definition:
(n.) An ode or song of praise or adoration; especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric; a song of praise or thankgiving intended to be used in religious service; as, the Homeric hymns; Watts' hymns.
(v. t.) To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing.
(v. i.) To sing in praise or adoration.
Example Sentences:
(1) A truck stopped on a street corner, blaring martyrdom hymns throughout the cavernous lanes and alleys of the party's heartland.
(2) As the hymns faded Francis made a now familiar appeal in English: “Please,” he said, “I ask you: don’t forget to pray for me.” It was his last scheduled event in New York.
(3) Many wept, wiping tears off their faces as the melancholic tunes of the hymns reached them through loudspeakers.
(4) He has also covered an old Scottish folk song, 'Hymn Of The Whale', as well as a fearsome semi-industrial track in the company of the erstwhile drummer from Nine Inch Nails.
(5) In East Germany this was our hymn,” says one man.
(6) A hymn to the depravity of Edinburgh that balances the noble pursuance of art.
(7) He was not a Christian then: he had had the conventional upper-class socialisation of tedious hymns and meaningless sermons, which normally functions as a vaccine against religious fervour.
(8) !” singing hymns and other songs The women, who are a range of ages, have travelled from across Gauteng province and are and saying a prayer ahead of a planned march in the city centre.
(9) Chanting battle hymns, they jogged past buildings still pockmarked by clashes with US forces who occupied the area in 2008 and had fought running battles with the Mahdi army for most of the nine years that they remained in Iraq.
(10) A hymn of praise, and a word of warning,” the book has been compiled by two titans of pragmatic ecology, Nigel Holmes and Paul Raven.
(11) How can he, of all people, hymn bourgeois notions such as commitment and conjugal felicity?
(12) She was undergoing a bone-marrow transplant for leukaemia when I was writing Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and I went through a life-questioning crisis.
(13) The song – which cannot be described as great art - like many National Anthems including our own, is strident and solemn, and could be hymn.
(14) John Kampfner: Clegg has an opportunity now to strike out After Chairman Mao and the 1950s hymn book , the Liberal Democrats had the chance of offering something more modern and enticing than their rivals.
(15) The familiar biblical words, the quavering congregation working its way through Victorian hymns, the priest, who often has never met the deceased: all these deaden and distance.
(16) I know the hymns and I know the prayers and I know the good done by many Christians in the act of witness.
(17) The point is that Marine can have a clear-out, and everyone will now (more or less) sing from the same hymn sheet: hers.
(18) In Battle Hymn …, she writes that she was determined "not to raise a soft, entitled child – not to let my family fall".
(19) We stand up a lot in church, albeit tardily for the drearier hymns.
(20) There was even a chant of "Attack, attack, attack" from the Stretford End as the game kicked off as if in anticipation of the shackles of unadventurous football being thrown off, plus any number of favourite hymns to Giggs and Paul Scholes.