hymen
noun
a fold of mucous membrane partly closing the external orifice of the vagina in a virgin.
hymens
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pluralof hymen.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Nine years after the 1998 convictions, the American Academy of Pediatrics published a study concluding that torn or injured hymens do not leave scars.
From Time ● Dec. 10, 2013
Hickinbotham of Birmingham reports the history of two cases of labor at term in females whose hymens were immensely thickened.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
