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What does hymen mean?

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Noun
  1. (anatomy) A membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening in human females.
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So, essentially, the hymen is a small bit of skin that may hurt a bit if it is torn somehow, but will go away by itself even if it isn't broken.
Most women experience discomfort and bleeding the first time they have sexual intercourse due to the stretching or tearing of their hymen.
But the frame itself is part of a problematic list to which belongs such other terms like the parergon, the supplement and the hymen.
Is it the breaking of the hymen, are bones displaced or is it something else?
She provides further evidence that on her return to Iran she was suffering from a urinary tract infection and that her hymen was broken.
Examination of her hymen showed a dilated orifice after initial spasm and inability to relax.

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