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Average vaginal pH is 7.0 in pre-pubertal girls. [145] Although there is a high degree of variability in timing, girls who are approximately seven to twelve years of age will continue to have labial development as the hymen thickens and the vagina elongates to approximately 8 cm. The vaginal mucosa thickens and the vaginal pH becomes acidic again.
Transudate has a neutral pH, so increases in its production can temporarily shift vaginal pH to be more neutral. [4] Semen has a basic pH and can neutralize the acidity of the vagina for up to 8 hrs. [4] The composition and amount of vaginal discharge changes as an individual goes through the various stages of sexual and reproductive ...
In prepubertal girls, the skin of the vulva is thin and delicate, and its neutral pH makes it prone to irritation. [52] The production of the female sex hormone estradiol (an estrogen ) at puberty, causes the perineal skin to thicken by keratinising , and this reduces the risk of infection. [ 53 ]
Vaginal yeast infection, also known as candidal vulvovaginitis and vaginal thrush, is excessive growth of yeast in the vagina that results in irritation. [5] [1] The most common symptom is vaginal itching, which may be severe. [1]
The hymen is a thin piece of mucosal tissue that surrounds or partially covers the vaginal introitus.A small percentage are born with hymens that are imperforate and completely obstruct the vaginal canal.
A virginity test is the pseudoscientific practice and process of determining whether a woman or girl is a virgin; i.e., to determine that she has never engaged in, or been subjected to, vaginal intercourse.
Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de la Paz y Buen Viaje; Filipino: Mahal na Birhen ng Kapayapaan at Mabuting Paglalakbay), [citation needed] also known as Our Lady of Antipolo and the Virgin of Antipolo (Filipino: Virgen ng Antipolo), is a seventeenth-century Roman Catholic wooden image of the Blessed Virgin Mary as venerated in the Philippines.
The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is a primary source of keyboard music from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods in England, i.e., the late Renaissance and very early Baroque. It takes its name from Viscount Fitzwilliam who bequeathed this manuscript collection to Cambridge University in 1816.