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Institution (medicine) and artery of bulb of vestibule (medicine)


Institution (medicine)


institution


1. The act or process of instituting; as: Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school. "The institution of God's law is described as being established by solemn injunction." (Hooker)

Instruction; Education.

The act or ceremony of Investing a clergyman with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge.

2. That which instituted or established; as: Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity. "The Nature of our people, Our city's institutions." (Shak)

An established or organised society or corporation; an establishment, especially of a public character, or affecting a community; a foundation; as, a literary institution; a charitable institution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution.

Anything forming a characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits. "We ordered a lunch (the most delightful of English institutions, next to dinner) to be ready against our return." (Hawthorne)

3. That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute. "There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old, . . . Being an institution of physic." (Evelyn)

Origin: L. Institutio: cf. F. Institution.

Source: Websters Dictionary


artery of bulb of vestibule (medicine)


artery of bulb of vestibule


The branch of the internal pudendal artery in the female that supplies the bulb of the vestibule.

Synonym: arteria bulbi vestibuli, arteria bulbi vaginae.