Vagina (disambiguation)
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Vagina is Latin for sheath or scabbard.
Today vagina is the name of the female sex organ.
In anatomy, vagina may also refer to a structure that serves as a sheath:
- the vagina of the portal vein.
- vagina tendinis, the fibrous sheath around tendons:
- called a vagina fibrosa when solid;
- or a vagina mucosa when it contains a fluid-filled cavity around the tendon.
- vagina bulbi, bulbar vagina, the sheath of the eyeball
- vagina musculi recti abdominis, rectus sheath
- vagina processus styloidei, sheath of styloid process
