revagination

English

Noun

revagination (usually uncountable, plural revaginations)

1. (surgery) vaginal cosmetic surgery or other cosmetic treatment of the vagina.
   • 2009, Perez Hilton, Jared Shapiro, Red Carpet Suicide: A Survival Guide on Keeping Up With the Hiltons, →ISBN:

     Roseanne Barr says kabbalah is the force behind her own rejuvenation; maybe it also inspired her revagination?

   • 2018 May 7, Sara Somerset, “Revagination: How Your Vagina Can Be Reimagined”, in The Fresh Toast:

     Vaginas already have their own self-cleaning, self-lubricating ecosystem. And with revagination, they can be self-improving, too.

   • 2019 January 23, Frida Garza, “Vaginal 'Wellness' Is Over, Get Your Dick Checked”, in Jezebel:

     Indeed, WWD notes that Cindy Barshop, the woman behind a “revagination spa” that offers vaginal steaming, thinks “This is really about about empowering women..

2. The act of growing or creating a new sheath.
   • 1920 July, B.W. Wells, “Early stages in the development of certain Pachypsylla galls on Celtis”, in American Journal of Botany, volume 7, number 7:

     This depression or revagination is produced chiefly through the hypertrophy of the elements on the under side of the leaf or that opposite to the insect.

   • 1987 March, Anders Hay‐Schmidt, “The ultrastructure of the protonephridium of the actinotroch larva (Phoronida)”, in Acta Zoologica, volume 68, number 1:

     By revagination of their common piece, the two branches become completely separated, so that each has its own opening (nephrophore) on the ventral side of the metasome below the tentacle ring.

   • 1996 April, M.G. Sanda, R.D. Jeffs, J.P. Gearhart, “Evolution of outcomes with the ileal hydraulic valve continent diversion: reevaluation of the Benchekroun catheterizable stoma”, in World journal of urology, volume 14, number 2:

     Our approach in these cases was initially to revaginate or fixate the Benchekroun hydraulic valve (patients 4, 6); however, since revagination does not preclude the nearly ubiquitous development of significant stomal stenosis, we have more recently (patients 2, 9, 10, 11) opted to convert stenotic or devaginated Benchekroun hydraulic continent stomas to flap-valve efferent limbs based upon the Mitrofanoff principle [2, 4, 10].

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Translations

• Italian: revaginazione f

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• renavigation