Word: vulva
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...pain. In some African countries, it is only a piece of the clitoris that is cut off. In others, the labia minora are sliced away. Natural protuberances are viewed as ugly, the unchaste accoutrements of prostitutes. Elsewhere, the entire outer genitalia are removed and the two sides of the vulva sutured together until marriage, leaving only a tiny opening for the excretion of blood and urine. Infections and hemorrhaging are not uncommon; intercourse can be excruciatingly painful. The surgical methods are prescribed not by science but by a tradition that expects girls to go through such rites of passage before...
...inevitable first impression elicits giggles at the curious intersection of phallus and vulva, which reveals more about the tortured psyche of some undersexed Design School grad than most of us care to consider as we make our way down Mass. Ave. Or, as soothsayer of public space and Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape Development John R. Stilgoe says, "It looks like the phone company is about to unroll a length of cable...
Between 5% and 15% of those with persistent warts are expected to develop cancer, says Virologist Wayne Lancaster of Georgetown University. The most common by far is cancer of the cervix, but HPV has also been blamed for tumors of the vulva, vagina, anus and penis. The virus alone, however, probably does not cause cancer. Instead, say researchers, one or more of several co-factors seem to be required to trigger the disease. Among the suspected culprits: smoking, birth-control pills, and the presence of herpes and other venereal infections...
...midwife procedures, the belief that women get better basic care in hospitals and the fact that many deliveries may require aid that few midwives can provide in the home. Examples: anesthesia; delivery by cesarean section; forceps delivery; episiotomy, a surgical procedure in which an incision is made from the vulva through the perineum to widen the birth canal...
...between 1967 and 1973. The study, signed jointly by Sabin and Tarro, found antibodies produced in the body in reaction to the presence of the herpes simplex Type I and Type II viruses in patients with cancers of the lip, mouth, nose and throat, kidney, bladder, prostate, cervix and vulva. It turned up no trace of the viruses in patients with 28 other malignancies, or in patients without cancer...