hymenologyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

hymenology (複数形 hymenologies)

1. The scientific study of the hymen.
   • 2008, Hanne Blank, Virgin: The Untouched History, Bloomsbury Publishing USA (→ISBN), page 32:

     CHAPTER 3

     Hymenology

     Given the pronounced variations in size and shape from woman to woman, perhaps it would be more accurate to identify the hymen as a site than as an anatomical part.

   • 2009, Ryan Byrne, Bernadette McNary-Zak, Resurrecting the Brother of Jesus: The James Ossuary Controversy and the Quest for Religious Relics, University of North Carolina Press (→ISBN), page 146:

     It is preferable to discuss these criteria later in the chapter, however, within the context of Greek virginity and hymenology.

2. (countable) A treatise on the topic of the hymen.
   • 2002, Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages, Routledge (→ISBN), chapter 1:

     It may be helpful at this point to anticipate part of the argument in Chapter 1, “Hymenologies: the multiple signs of virginity.” Today, the primary physiological “sign” of virginity in women is considered to be the “unbroken” hymen; [...]

3. The scientific study of membranes in general.

   Synonym: membranology

4. (countable) A treatise on the topic of membranes.
   • 2017, Jacques Derrida, Acts of Literature, Routledge (→ISBN):

     There exist treatises on membranes or hymenologies; descriptions of membranes or hymenographies.

   • 2007, Claudia Mesch, Viola Maria Michely, Joseph Beuys: The Reader (I.B.Tauris):

     Within the various hymenologies, or treatises on membranes, one finds all three of Bacon's [models.]