used as a comb. form of L. vāgīna in some scientific terms, as † vaginopennous, = vaginipennous; vaginoscope, an instrument for examining the vagina; vagino-vesical, pertaining to the vagina and the bladder.
Recent Dicts. give a number of others in Med., Path., or Surg., as vagino-fixation, vaginotomy, vagino-abdominal, -labial, -vulvar adjs. (Cf. F. vaginolabial, péritonéal, -vésical, etc.)
1755. Johnson, Ladybird, a small red insect vaginopennous.
1825. Good, Study Med. (ed. 2), V. 154. Vagino-vesical prolapse. Prolapse of the vagina dragging the bladder along with it.
1866. J. M. Sims, Uterine Surg., 33. Dr. Routh … has detected pregnancy … by means of his vaginoscope.
