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Definition of Nabothian follicle

1. Noun. A cyst that forms in the nabothian glands of the uterine cervix.

Medical Definition of Nabothian follicle

1. Chronic cervicitis most likely to be inflammatory stenosis of cervical glands most likely to be retention most likely to be cyst Differential diagnosis: cystic mass of cervix, ectopic pregnancy, adenomyosis (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nabothian Follicle

Literary usage of Nabothian follicle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of women: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners by J. C. Webster (1898)
"In some cases a nabothian follicle bursts through the surface, ... Small bit of vaginal portion of cervix with a large nabothian follicle. are increased as ..."

2. Treatise on the Diseases of Women: For the Use of Students and Practitioners by Alexander Johnston Chalmers Skene (1897)
"... os was incised superficially in three places, dividing equally the circumference of the canal, and the distended nabothian follicle was punctured and ..."

3. Gynæcology for Students & Practitioners by Thomas Watts Eden (1920)
"A fine platinum loop may be passed into the more patent of the paraurethral crypts and a suppurating nabothian follicle may be punctured by a sterile ..."

4. A Text-book of diseases of women by John Clarence Webster (1907)
"... nabothian follicle bursts, leaving a moist, secreting area. When the disease is extensive, the lower ,.-,.. part of the cervix may ^^tm. ..."

5. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"The author has seer one case in which an unusually large anc prominent cystic nabothian follicle bulged into the cervical canal and almost obliterated it. ..."

6. The Principles and Practice of Gynecology: For Students and Practitioners by Emilius Clark Dudley (1908)
"Numerous cysts of the nabothian follicle, superficial and deep, large and small, appeared in the intracervical ..."

7. American Medicine (1906)
"This was in a nabothian follicle, in which large colonies were found in the retained secretions. In the fallopian tubes the gonococcus has been repeat, ..."

8. A System of Gynaecology by Thomas Clifford Allbutt, William Smoult Playfair (1896)
"... on closure, has become distended with mucus (nabothian follicle); and subsequently so protruded from the surface that it has become pedunculated. ..."

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