Medical inflammation of Bartholin's glands, which are paired glands located near the vaginal opening in female anatomy.
Named after Caspar Bartholin, a 17th-century Danish anatomist who first described these glands, with the medical suffix -itis meaning inflammation.
Bartholin's glands are named after a man, but they're entirely found in women—it's a quirk of medical history where male anatomists get the naming credit, though women ultimately understand these glands better than he ever did.
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