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Definition of Imperforate hymen
1. Noun. Hymen that is completely closed so that menstrual blood cannot flow out.
Medical Definition of Imperforate hymen
1. A hymen in which there is no opening, the membrane completely occluding the vagina. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imperforate Hymen
Literary usage of Imperforate hymen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women by Theodore Gaillard Thomas (1891)
"imperforate hymen.—The hymen may be congenitally imperforate, the child being
born without the usual hymeneal opening ..."
2. A System of Practical Medicine by William Pepper, Louis Starr (1886)
"... or imperforate hymen. Although included under the head of Vulvar Atresia, this
will be considered chiefly in connection with atresia of the vagina. ..."
3. Operative gynecology by Harry Sturgeon Crossen (1917)
"imperforate hymen. The treatment for imperforate hymen, is crucial incision of
the projecting membrane, with excision of most of it, particularly if it is a ..."
4. Manual of gynecology by David Berry Hart (1893)
"We shall describe shortly the operations for (1) imperforate hymen, (2) atresia
of the vagina, (3) atresia of the cervix. 1. Imperforate. ..."
5. Clinical Memoirs on the Diseases of Women: By G. Bernutz and E. Goupil by Gustave Louis Richard Bernutz, Jean Ernest Goupil, Alfred Meadows, New Sydenham Society (1866)
"/3 In the second, to an imperforate hymen. •y In the third, to absence or ...
/3 The second and most frequent of all is caused by imperforate hymen. ..."
6. A Treatise on Surgery by Timothy Holmes (1875)
"It is not unfrequently confounded with imperforate hymen ; but the ... Imperar-
imperforate hymen is a much graver malformation, especially if (as is ate ..."
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