What's the difference between introitus and sexagesima?
Introitus
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Design improvements have retained the advantages of a previously described afterloading radium system, while facilitating insertion by minimizing the space required for passing the apparatus through the introitus.
(2) All presented with vaginal bleeding, "something" protruding from the introitus, or both.
(3) Our results suggest that 4 or more consecutive isolates of the potential urinary pathogens from the introitus over a 48-hour period signify colonisation.
(4) Bowel flora, usually Escherichia coli, colonize first the vaginal introitus, then the urethral mucosa, and they subsequently ascend to the bladder.
(5) However, twin "B" manifested moderate clitoral hypertrophy, a visible introitus and no labial fusion.
(6) The flaps are raised bilaterally in the groin crease just lateral to the labia majora and then are transposed toward the midline and sutured together to form a skin-lined cul-de-sac which opens at the introitus.
(7) We developed a new transvaginal technique for the repair of large cystoceles (grade IV) extending outside of the introitus at rest, which includes repair of the central defect by anterior colporrhaphy, and repair of the paravaginal herniation of the bladder base and bladder neck by a needle suspension of these structures.
(8) Several factors seem to be responsible for the low fertility rates: noncompliance with therapy was probably high, as suggested by hirsutism and poor endocrine follow-up in 25 percent of patients; whereas 49 patients had regular menstrual periods, 14 had irregular periods, 10 had amenorrhea, 5 had undergone hysterectomy, and 2 had entered menopause; 87 percent of patients with salt loss and 50 percent of those with simple virilization (P less than 0.001) had remained single; the vaginal introitus was reported to be inadequate for intercourse by 35 percent of patients (53 percent of those with salt loss and 18 percent of those with simple virilization; P less than 0.002); and heterosexual activity was reported less frequently among patients with an inadequate introitus.
(9) In order to determine if Ureaplasma urealyticum (Uu) or large colony mycoplasma (LCM) colonization was related to a history of sexual abuse, the type of sexual contact, an enlarged vaginal introitus transverse diameter (greater than 4 mm), age or race, 452 female children, ages 1-12 years, were evaluated by the Child Sexual Abuse Team at Wake Medical Center in Raleigh, NC.
(10) A saccular dilation of the small intestine, 15 X 15 cm2 large, blocked by a hard introitus was seen in a patient with a one-year history of diarrhea.
(11) Vaginal dilatation affords an acceptable functional success rate for women with vaginal agenesis, provided there is an introitus with a pouch or dimple.
(12) The anaerobic urethral flora varied slightly from week to week, and a similar anaerobic flora was isolated from the introitus, fourchette, and cutaneous perineum.
(13) However, a sufficiently large pediculated perineal skin flap inserted into the "defect" of the posterior vaginal wall provides sufficient width of the vaginal introitus and canal.
(14) Fourteen women (13.7%) had S. aureus in one or more samples: 10.7% labia, 3.9% introitus and 3.9% vaginal.
(15) Plastic film (Glad, Union Carbide) was applied over the cream when natural occlusion, such as under the prepuce or on the introitus, was not present.
(16) The susceptibility of the vaginal introitus to colonization by enterobacteria appears to be the biologic defect that separates women who experience recurrent urinary infection from those resistant to recurrent infection.
(17) The reported cases have been found at all levels of the female reproductive tract from the introitus to the fallopian tube.
(18) At the 5th day, an ectodermic invagination (stratified keratinized epithelium) is observed in the zone of the future introitus.
(19) Colonization of the vaginal introitus with Enterobacteriaceae was cleared dramatically in women receiving trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for recurrent urinary tract infections.
(20) During the same operation, the vaginal orifice was created by the inversion of an U-shaped flap taken from the perineum into the introitus vaginae.
Sexagesima
Definition:
(n.) The second Sunday before Lent; -- so called as being about the sixtieth day before Easter.