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vaginal fornix (medicine) and histogram (iou)


vaginal fornix (medicine)


vaginal fornix


The recess at the vault of the vagina; it is divided into an anterior part, posterior part, and lateral part with respect to its relation to the cervix of the uterus. The posterior part is clinically significant as the site for culdocentesis and culdoscopy. The proximity of the ureter (below) and the uterine artery (above) adjacent to the lateral fornix is important clinically.

Synonym: fornix vaginae, fornix uteri.


histogram (iou)



histogram noun. L19.
[from Greek histos mast, web + -GRAM.]
A diagram consisting of a number of rectangles or lines drawn (usu. upwards) from a base line, their heights representing frequencies of a series of values (or value-ranges) of a quantity.