| female urethra | A canal about 4 cm long passing from the bladder, in close relation with the anterior wall of the vagina and having a long axis that parallels that of the vagina, opening in the vestibule of the vagina posterior to the clitoris and anterior to the vaginal orifice. Synonym: urethra feminina, urethra muliebris. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| female urethral syndrome | <syndrome, urology> Symptoms of a urinary tract infection although the urine is sterile when analysed. This suggests the infection is localised to the urethra (urethritis). Treated with antibiotics. (27 Sep 1997) |
| feme | A woman. Feme covert, a married woman, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband. Origin: OF. Feme, F. Femme. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| femi-nei-ty | Womanliness; femininity. Origin: L. Femineus womanly. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| feminine | 1. Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly. "Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace." (Macaulay) 2. Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate. "Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine." (Milton) "Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine, and subject to ease and delicacy." (Sir W. Raleigh) Origin: L. Femininus, fr. Femina woman; prob. Akin to L. Fetus, or to Gr. To suck, to suckle, Skr. Dha to suck; cf. AS. Famme woman, maid: cf. F. Feminin. See Foetus. 1. A woman. "They guide the feminines toward the palace." (Hakluyt) 2. Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix. "There are but few true feminines in English." (Latham) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| feminineness | The quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| femininity | 1. The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness. 2. The female form. "O serpent under femininitee." (Chaucer) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| femininity complex | In psychoanalysis, the unconscious fear, in boys and men, of castration at the hands of the mother with resultant identification with the aggressor and envious desire for breasts and vagina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| feminism | The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes and organised activity on behalf of women's rights and interests. (12 Dec 1998) |
| feminity | Womanliness; femininity. "Trained up in true feminity." (Spenser) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| feminization | Development of what are superficially external female characteristics by a male. (05 Mar 2000) |
| feminize | To make womanish or effeminate. Origin: Cf. F. Feminiser. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| feminye | The people called Amazons. "[The reign of] feminye." Origin: OF. Femenie, feminie, the female sex, realm of women. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| femme | A woman. See Feme, Femme de chambre . [F] A lady's maid; a chambermaid. Origin: F. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| femoral | <anatomy> Pertaining to the femur or to the thigh. Origin: L. Femoralis (18 Nov 1997) |