Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Inflammation of the vulva and vagina.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inflammation of both the vulva and the vagina.
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- noun medicine
Inflammation of thevulva andvagina .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun inflammation of the vulva and the vagina
Etymologies
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Examples
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Women often times experience inflammation of the vulva and vagina which is acknowledged as vulvovaginitis but is sometimes mistaken as a yeast infection.
Yeast/Candida and Fertility: Guest Post GreenFertility 2007
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It will therefore be seen that vulvovaginitis is a calamity, and everything possible should be done to guard female children from contracting it.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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Generally speaking, vulvovaginitis in children is a mild infection.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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Now great care is being taken and in most hospitals no children are admitted in the general wards unless it is determined that they are free from vulvovaginitis.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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The very dangerous infective character of vulvovaginitis was not known, and the infection was therefore easily transferred by towels, linen, toilet seats, bedpans, syringe nozzles, thermometers, the nurses 'hands, and in various other ways.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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I have known several cases where the origin of the vulvovaginitis could be traced to little girls spending a week at the house of some friends where a boarder or relative was infected with gonorrhea.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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Sixth, and this is a point not sufficiently appreciated by the profession and the laity, but it is an important point, nevertheless: vulvovaginitis in children has unfortunately a disastrous effect in
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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I wrote about it in a December 10 2008 vulvovaginitis can meet with a physiotherapist to reduce pain, increase functional ability and reclaim the life of great sex and hosiery she's entitled to.
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us Ickaprick 2009
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a mild vulvovaginitis may be the cause of permanent _sterility_.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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(estrogen and/or nonsmall receptor depresssive or vulvovaginitis unknown) religon cancers.
Wii-volution 2010
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