Category: V
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Vestibular bulbs
Muscles located beneath the bulbocavernosus muscles on both sides of the vaginal opening. One of the two sacculated collections of veins, lying on either side of the vagina beneath the bulbocavernosus muscle, connected anteriorly by the pars intermedia, and through this strip of cavernous tissue communicating with the erectile tissue of the clitoris. The vestibular…
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Vested right
A right completely defined and settled that cannot be cancelled or impaired.
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Vested
Fixed, accrued, not subject to any contingency.
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Vessel element
One of the cells composing a vessel.
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Vesprin
A commercial preparation of phenothiazine.
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Verumontanum
A small mound in men in the portion of the urethra passing through the prostate, which contains openings of the ejaculatory ducts. An elevation on the floor of the prostatic portion of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter.
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Vertical enrichment
The teacher instructs learners who complete assignments faster than classmates to do more difficult or advanced assignments, horizontal enrichment.
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Vertical decalage
Across different periods of intellectual growth, successive rediscovery of the same principle at each new stage of thinking, horizontal decalage.
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Vertical curriculum format
The most conventional curricular organization or arrangement. Basically, it is composed of topic, objectives, content outline, activities, and resources, horizontal curriculum format.
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Vertex presentation
In childbirth, when the crown of the head is seen first at the opening of the vagina. An optimal type of fetal presentation, in which the fetus is head first. Presentation of the upper and back part of the fetal head. The typical presentation where the back of the skull is the part that emerges…