Histological terminology of the female genital organs is currently a part of the internationally accepted nomenclature Terminologia Histologica (TH), the latest edition of which dates back to 2008. Many new discoveries have been documented within 16 years since then, and many discrepancies have been found. This paper aims to revise the terminology from clinical and educational perspectives comprehensively. The authors thoroughly searched the current edition of "Terminologia Histologica: International Terms for Human Cytology and Histology," focusing on missing and controversial terms in the chapter Female genital system. The authors identified six controversial and ambiguous terms and four missing important histological terms. The authors also discussed the addition of less used eponymic terms in the histological description of female genital organs like Hamperl cells, Popescu cells, Kroemer lacunae, Balbiani bodies, Call-Exner bodies, membrane of Slavianski, nabothian cysts, or anogenital sweat glands of van der Putte. We expect the second and revised edition of the TH to be published soon and hope that the Federative International Program on Anatomical Terminology will approve and incorporate all these propositions and suggestions. We also strongly recommend using the official internationally accepted Latin and English histological nomenclature-the TH, either in oral or written form, both in theoretical and clinical medicine.

Department of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery University of Leipzig Leipzig Germany

Division of Macroscopic and Clinical Anatomy Gottfried Schatz Research Center for Cell Signaling Metabolism and Aging Medical University of Graz Graz Austria

Faculty of Health Care Studies University of Western Bohemia Pilsen Czech Republic

Faculty of Medicine Institute of Histology and Embryology Comenius University in Bratislava Spitalska Street 24 842 15 Bratislava Slovak Republic

Institute of Anatomy University of Basel Basel Switzerland

Medical Branch Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology Chemnitz Germany

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