| NPUI | nursing process utilization inventory |
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| PCM | patient care manager or management; patient classification system; primary cutaneous melanoma; proce... |
| PP | diphosphate group; emphysema [pink puffers]; near point of accommodation [Lat. punctum proximum]; pa... |
| proc | proceedings, procedure; process |
| PSP | pancreatic spasmolytic peptide; paralytic shellfish poisoning; parathyroid secretory protein; period... |
| vaginal hysterectomy | Removal of the uterus through a surgical incision, not of the abdomen but, within the vagina. With a vaginal hysterectomy, the scar is not outwardly visible. A vaginal hysterectomy is as opposed to an abdominal hysterectomy. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| vaginal hysterotomy | Incision into the uterus via the vagina. Synonym: colpohysterotomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal introitus | The space behind the glans clitoridis and between the labia minora, containing the openings of the vagina, urethra, and ducts of the greater vestibular glands. Synonym: vestibulum vaginae, vaginal introitus, vestibulum pudendi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal laceration | Tearing of the vaginal wall. Synonym: vaginal laceration. Origin: colpo-+ G. Rhexis, rupture (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal lithotomy | Lithotomy in which the bladder is entered through an incision in the vagina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal mucification test | A test for progestational activity; stimulation of mucus production by the vaginal epithelium in rats, guinea pigs, or mice by progestogens. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal mucosa | The mucous membrane of the vagina. Synonym: tunica mucosa vaginae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal myomectomy | Removal of a myoma of the uterus through the vagina. Synonym: colpomyomectomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal nerves | Several nerves passing from the uterovaginal plexus to the vagina. Synonym: nervi vaginales. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal opening | The narrowest portion of the canal, in the floor of the vestibule posterior to the urethral orifice. Synonym: ostium vaginae, orificium vaginae, vaginal opening. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal orifice | The narrowest portion of the canal, in the floor of the vestibule posterior to the urethral orifice. Synonym: ostium vaginae, orificium vaginae, vaginal opening. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal plug | A plug formed by the coagulation of semen; found in the vagina after copulation in certain animals, such as the baboon, rat, and squirrel. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal pool | The secretions and material that accumulate in the posterior fornix of the vagina; used for sampling, principally for evaluation after premature rupture of the membranes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal portion of cervix | The part of the cervix uteri contained within the vagina. Synonym: portio vaginalis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginal smear | A smear of debris from the vaginal lumen of mammals, used to determine the stage of their reproductive cycle. It is most useful in subprimate mammals having short estrous cycles; nucleated epithelial cells and leukocytes prevail in the smear during diestrus and proestrus, and cornified cells during estrus. (05 Mar 2000) |