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A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.

Of or pertaining to a vagina; resembling a vagina, or sheath; thecal; as, a vaginal synovial membrane; the vaginal process of the temporal bone.

Serving to in invest, or sheathe; sheathing. Vaginant leaf (Bot.), a leaf investing the stem or branch by its base, which has the form of a tube.

Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf.

A tribe of birds comprising the sheathbills.

Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated; as, an evaginate membrane.

The act of unsheathing.

To insert as in a sheath; to pr

Sheathed.

The condition of an invaginated organ or part.

Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the vagina.

Situated under or inside a sheath or vaginal membrane; as, the subvaginal, or subdural, spaces about the optic nerve.

Situated above or outside a sheath or vaginal membrane.

Pertaining to both the uterus and the vagina.

Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.

Pertaining both to the vulva and the vagina.

Relating to the archenteron; as, archenteric invagination.

eron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.

Pushing or growing in; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.