VULVA (vulvae)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: vulvae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does vulva mean? 

• VULVA (noun)
  The noun VULVA has 1 sense:

1. external parts of the female genitalia

  Familiarity information: VULVA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VULVA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

External parts of the female genitalia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("vulva" is a kind of...):

fanny; female genital organ; female genitalia; female genitals (external female sex organs)

Meronyms (parts of "vulva"):

labial vein; vena labialis (veins draining the lips of the vulva)

urethra (duct through which urine is discharged in most mammals and which serves as the male genital duct)

mons; mons pubis; mons veneris (a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women)

labium (a liplike structure that bounds a bodily orifice (especially any of the four labiate folds of a woman's vulva))

labia majora (the two outer folds of the vulva)

pudendal cleavage; pudendal cleft; pudendal slit; rima pudendi; rima vulvae; urogenital cleft; vulvar slit (the fissure between the labia majora)

labia minora (the two inner folds of the vulva)

vestibule of the vagina (the space between the labia minora containing the orifice of the urethra)

button; clit; clitoris (a female sexual organ homologous to the penis)

Holonyms ("vulva" is a part of...):

female reproductive system (the reproductive system of females)

Derivation:

vulval (of or relating to the vulva)

 Context examples 

A squamous cell carcinoma that arises from the vulva and is caused by human papillomavirus infection.

(Human Papillomavirus-Related Vulvar Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the two longitudinal folds of skin that form the lateral boundary of the vulva.

(Labium Majus, NCI Thesaurus)

A malignant neoplasm that has spread to the vulva from another anatomic site.

(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Vulva, NCI Thesaurus)

An uncommon intraepithelial malignant neoplasm of eccrine or apocrine origin, arising from the vulva.

(Paget Disease of the Vulva, NCI Thesaurus)

The majority arise in the stomach, however the colon, bladder, vulva, and other sites may give rise to this neoplasm.

(Epithelioid Cell Type Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

The neoplasm arises from the vulva.

(Childhood Botryoid-Type Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma of the Vulva, NCI Thesaurus)

A small, well circumscribed melanocytic neoplasm that arises from the vulva and affects women in their reproductive years.

(Atypical Melanocytic Nevus of the Genital Type, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign neoplasm that arises from the vulva and is characterized by the presence of epithelial cells forming nests and tubules in a fibrotic stroma.

(Benign Mixed Tumor of the Vulva, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-metastasizing neoplasm that arises from the vulva.

(Benign Vulvar Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare, benign neoplasm that arises from the vulva It is characterized by the presence of clusters of small glands lined by mucinous epithelial cells.

(Adenoma of Minor Vestibular Glands, NCI Thesaurus)