vagina orifice
The median slit located inferior and posterior to the external urethral orifice in the female; the exit for menstrual flow and birth and the entrance for the penis during sexual intercourse; the size and appearance of the vaginal orifice varies inversely with that of the hymen (G. membrane), a thin fold of mucous membrane that surrounds the vaginal orifice [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/anna http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/csmith ]
Term info
vagina orifice
- opening of vagina
- orifice of vagina
- ostium vaginae
- vagina opening
- vaginal orifice
pheno_slim
introitus
uberon
vaginal introitus, introitus, introitus of vagina
UBERON:0012317
Term relations
- orifice
- reproductive structure
- mesoderm-derived structure
- part of some vagina
- contributes to morphology of some vagina