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Definition of Rima pudendi
1. Noun. The fissure between the labia majora.
Group relationships: Vulva
Generic synonyms: Rima
Medical Definition of Rima pudendi
1. The cleft between the labia majora. Synonym: rima pudendi, fissura pudendi, pudendal cleavage, pudendal slit, rima vulvae, urogenital cleft, vulvar slit. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rima Pudendi
Literary usage of Rima pudendi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Transactions of the New York Academy of Medicine by New York Academy of Medicine (1892)
"I have seen real transverse tears by which a strip of mucous membrane, extending
from one side to the other of the rima pudendi, is torn loose from the ..."
2. A Textbook of the diseases of women by Henry Jacques Garrigues (1894)
"comparatively narrow openings, the vaginal entrance and the- rima pudendi, the
first of which is circular from the beginning, while the second becomes so ..."
3. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1877)
"and not in the axis of the rima pudendi; secondly, the point of greatest resistance
is a little anterior to the center of the perineum. ..."