Patent ID: 8740766

Claim:
An intravaginal device for the control of passage of stool in an adult human female user, the device comprising an occluding portion and a stabilizing portion supporting the occluding portion, the stabilizing portion having tissue engagement surfaces sized and shaped to engage with internal vaginal anatomy maintain position and stability of the occluding portion in the user's vagina during repeated extensions of the occluding portion in an extension direction to contact the user's rectovaginal septum proximal to the perineal body to at least partially occlude the rectum, the occluding portion extending from the stabilizing portion in the extension direction, the ratio of the thickness of the device in the extension direction in an un-extended state to the thickness of the device in the extension direction in an extended state being no greater than about 0.5, the occluding portion having a lateral span less than the lateral span between the tissue engagement surfaces of the stabilizing portion.