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vulvodynia

vulvodynia noun: pain in the vulva unexplained by vulvar or vaginal infection or skin disease.

Noun

vulvodynia (uncountable)

  1. Pain in the vulva unexplained by vulvar or vaginal infection or skin disease.
    • Anodynia (anorectal pain) most frequently occurs together with other pain syndromes, like vulvodynia or phallodynia, but sometimes it may be isolated.2013, Tomasz F. Mroczkowski, Larry E. Millikan, Lawrence Charles Parish, Genital and Perianal Diseases: A Color Handbook, page 260

Origin of vulvodynia

From vulvo- + -odynia.

Questions about vulvodynia

What does vulvodynia mean?
Vulvodynia means pain in the vulva unexplained by vulvar or vaginal infection or skin disease.
What part of speech is vulvodynia?
Vulvodynia is a noun.

Words near vulvodynia in the dictionary

  1. vulvitides
  2. vulvitis
  3. vulvo-
  4. vulvo-uterine
  5. vulvocrural
  6. vulvodynia
  7. vulvoplasties
  8. vulvoplasty
  9. vulvouterine
  10. vulvovaginal
  11. vulvovaginatis

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