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musculus pubovaginalis (medicine)


musculus pubovaginalis -->
pubovaginalis muscle
<anatomy> In the female, the most medial fibres of the levator ani (pubococcygeus) muscle that extend from the pubis into the lateral walls of the vagina.

Synonym: musculus pubovaginalis, pubovaginal muscle.


porism (medicine)


porism


1. <geometry> A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.

2. <geometry> A corollary.

Three books of porisms of Euclid have been lost, but several attempts to determine the Nature of these propositions and to restore them have been made by modern geometers.

Origin: Gr. A thing procured, a deduction from a demonstration, fr. To bring, provide: cf. F. Porisme.

Source: Websters Dictionary