Vagina refers to the muscular tube leading from the external genitals to the cervix of the uterus in females.

Physical Anatomy

The term 'vagina' is used in a medical context to discuss health, reproductive issues, or sexual functions.

Medical Consultations

Be cautious and respectful when discussing parts of the body; 'vagina' might be personal or sensitive.

Gender Sensitivity

In botany, 'vagina' refers to a sheath-like structure, not related to the animal reproductive organ.

Botanical Context

'Vagina' in plants can also mean the surrounding part through which the stem passes.

Plant Biology

Use the botanical term 'vagina' only when talking about plant anatomy to avoid confusion.

Correct Application

 or you have a vagina that's this wide internally and a clitoris that's half an inch above the vaginal opening and labia that look exactly like they're supposed to look like, according to that one porn video you watched that one time. You know the one. If you've been with more than one sexual partner in your lifetime, and you line them up, one by one,

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 The baby crawls down the middle of the mother's three vaginas, then must climb up to the pouch, where she spends the next 6-11 months suckling. Even after the baby kangaroo leaves this warm haven, she'll return to suckle milk. Sometimes, she's just one of three babies her mother is caring for.

The three different ways...

 you know how I've struggled with weight issues my whole isobe you hustle everyone in our family turns out our bodies are filled with these microbes they totally have a huge say maybe dictate how would you weigh there in your gut during your vagina there in your mouth and apparently having

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 In some bed bug species, the females have evolved an entirely new set of genitalia on their right hand flanks where the males usually pierce them. That allows them to maintain the power to filter out unwanted sperm with their genitalia. And duck vaginas are shaped like a clockwise spiral

The evolution of animal...

 Shy but ambitious pig farmers, however, can purchase a -- this is true -- a sow vibrator, that hangs on the sperm feeder tube to vibrate. Because, as I mentioned, the clitoris is inside the vagina. So possibly, you know, a little more arousing than it looks. And I also said to her,

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 because the vagina is shedding more epithelial and Candida cells. A few major factors, like antibiotic treatments and lower immunity, can make people more susceptible to vaginal yeast infections. When someone’s immune system is compromised, from illness or otherwise,

What causes yeast...

 I was afraid of trees. I never had babies because heads cannot give birth. Babies actually don't come out of your mouth. As I had no reference point for my body, I began to ask other women about their bodies -- in particular, their vaginas,

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 This system is responsible for creating life the primary organs involved differ between the sexes with ovaries fallopian Tubes the uterus and vagina found in women and testes and a sperm channel found in men together

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 artificially inseminated because the male she had the hots for is not a good genetic match but rocky is his semen is about to be collected using an artificial vagina

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 claws as the male withdraws the hooks scraped the walls of the vagina the barbs have two functions they help scratch out any competing sperm from