different between vulvar vs vulval

vulvar

English

Etymology

vulva +? -ar

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?v?lv??/

Adjective

vulvar (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the vulva.

See also

  • vulval

Spanish

Adjective

vulvar (plural vulvares)

  1. vulvar

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vulval

English

Etymology

From vulva +? -al.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?v?lv?l/

Adjective

vulval (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the vulva.
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      In John and Salomé, Salomé's nipples are angry blossoms, her black navel vulval, tendrilous, vaguely insectimorphic.
    • 2003, Jenny Diski, "It's so beautiful", London Review of Books, XXV.22:
      Pythagoras, she suggests, venerated three-sided figures for their vaginal symbolism; Upper Palaeolithic dips in rock are chipped away by cavemen into vulval icons.

Derived terms

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