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Uterus   /jˈutərəs/   Listen
Uterus

noun
(pl. uteri, uteruses)
1.
A hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus.  Synonym: womb.



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"Uterus" Quotes from Famous Books



... being in a longitudinal direction. At the end of the vagina, instead of an os tincae, as in other quadrupeds, is the meatus urinarius; on each side of which is an opening leading into a cavity, resembling the horn of the uterus in the quadruped, only thinner in its coats. Each of these cavities terminates in a fallopian tube, which opens into the capsule of an ovarium. The ovaria are very small; they were not in a very perfect state of preservation, but bore a general ...
— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2 • David Collins



Words linked to "Uterus" :   myometrium, venter, round ligament of the uterus, uterine cervix, uterine tube, womb, endometrium, oviduct, uterine cavity, uterine artery, arteria uterina, placenta, Fallopian tube, female reproductive system, cervix uteri, female internal reproductive organ, cervix



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