Introits vs Introitus - What's the difference?
introits | introitus |
(medicine) The entrance to a hollow organ or canal; often specifically the entrance to the vagina.
* 1980 : Thomas Alexander Stamey, Pathogenesis and Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections ,
* {{quote-news, 1988, January 29, Cecil Adams, The Straight Dope, Chicago Reader
, passage=Now, far be it from me to add insult to injury, but how could you be so klutzy that you "missed the introitus "?}}
* 1993 : Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Melanesian journal: expedition to New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Manus, New Britain, and New Guinea, 23 January 1965 to 7 April 1965 ,
(music) A piece of music played before a mass; a musical introduction of any sort.
* 1954 : Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance ,
* 1992 : Jon Michael Allsen, Style and intertextuality in the isorhythmic motet 1400–1440 , volume 1,
As nouns the difference between introits and introitus
is that introits is while introitus is (medicine) the entrance to a hollow organ or canal; often specifically the entrance to the vagina.introitus
English
Noun
(introitus)page 144(Williams & Wilkins; ISBN 0683079093, 9780683079098)
- During NA therapy, 49 of the 54 women cleared their introitus of all Enterobacteriaceae.
citation
page 90(Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures, Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke, National Institutes of Health)
- There is nothing feminine about these male pseudohermaphrodites except their introitus, and they seem to be normally male otherwise.
page 22(W.W. Norton)
- Five have an introitus' (introduction) that stands outside the isorhythmic scheme;108 some of these ' introitus are instrumental rather than vocal […]
page 118(University of Wisconsin–Madison)
- As summarized in Example 3.14, nearly all of these introitus […]
Quotations
* 1955 : Geoffrey Chaucer, Richard Middlewood Wilson, Simon Bredon, Derek John de Solla Price, and Peterhouse (University of Cambridge) Library, The Equatorie of the Planetis ,page 161(Cambridge University Press) *: It seems that many such technical words (grada, minuta, introitus ) were left in the uninflected state when contracted in any customary form such as we have […]