colpeurysis

English

Etymology

See colpo- (“vagina”), eury- (“wide, broad”) and -sis. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

colpeurysis (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, medicine) The dilation of the vagina, as by a colpeurynter.
   • 1887, Franz Winckel, “Lesions of the Vagina and their Results, Vaginal Cicatrices”, in Joseph H. Williamson, transl., Diseases of Women: A Handbook for Physicians and Students, Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co., page 213:

     The improvement in the symptoms after colpeurysis proves their connection with the vaginal cicatrices, and renders it probable that the pain is the result of tension or pressure caused by them, or of the remains of inflammatory swelling in the region of the sacro-ischiatic plexus.

Related terms

• colpeurynter

 

Further reading

• “colpeurysis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.