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A hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females
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uterus
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n. (context anatomy English) An organ of the female reproductive system in which the young are conceived and develop until birth; the womb.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Uterus Normally pear-sized, the uterus grows up to five times its usual size in pregnancy. ▪ About 30 years ago the estrogen receptor protein was first isolated from the rat uterus . ▪ But my uterus had gone into a kind of blue ...
Usage examples of uterus.
The old theory was that oxytocin caused the uterus to contract so violently that the amniotic fluid was forced out of the water bag and into the veins of the womb.
The females of the ancipital species have a one-day flow of menses from the uterus as a prelude to the oestral cycle, when they go into rut.
He also mentions the instance of congenital atresia of the vagina with hernia of both ovaries into the left groin in a servant of twenty, and the case of an imperforate vagina in a girl of nineteen with an undeveloped uterus.
POLYPI OR POLYPOID TUMORS of the uterus are of three kinds, cystic, mucous and fibrous.
The cystic and mucous varieties may spring from any portion of the mucous surface of the uterus, but they are more frequently met with growing from the mucous membrane lining the cervical canal, and pendent from the mouth of the womb, as represented in Fig.
It so happened in this case that the peritoneum was extremely dilatable, and the uterus, with the child inside, made its way into the peritoneal sac.
Careful examination showed this to be a case of intramural twin pregnancy at the point of entrance of the tube and the uterus, while at the abdominal end of the same tube there was another ovum,--the whole being an example of triple unilateral ectopic gestation.
Those who sleep in warm rooms, or spend much of their time in bed, will continue to have congestion of the uterus, and habitual discharges from this enfeebled organ.
Ingleby describes a case of fibrous tumor of the uterus terminating fatally, but not until three weeks after delivery.
In December, 1890, I went to you, after suffering five years with two fibroid tumors of the uterus.
Brochin speaks of a case in which pregnancy was complicated with fibroma of the uterus, the accouchement being natural at term.
The fundus presses forcibly against the rectum, while the upper part of the vagina bends abruptly and forms an acute angle near the mouth of the uterus.
This term designates another unnatural position of the uterus, in which the fundus, or upper part of the organ, falls forward, as illustrated by Fig.
In its natural position, the fundus of the uterus is slightly inclined forward, and any pressure, or forward traction, is liable to cause it to fall still further in that direction.
The author allowed that the uterus was an animal, but he denied the alleged influence, as no anatomist had succeeded in discovering any communication between it and the brain.