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accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages to an organ (especially of the embryo)
Fallopian tubes and ovaries are adnexa of the uterus
How To Use adnexa In A Sentence
- An ultrasound scan showed an empty uterus and a 10-cm complex mass in the right adnexa.
- The uterus was small, anteflexed and anteverted, and nontender, and the adnexa were nonpalpable and nontender. Salem Falls
- Azem, Bastien, Bibb, Bovel, Warren, Ward, and many others report similar instances, and in several cases all the adnexa as well as the uterus and vagina were absent, and even the kidney and bladder malformed. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- The uterus, cervix, and adnexa should also be assessed for any abnormalities and/or pain.
- The uterus was small, anteflexed and anteverted, and nontender, and the adnexa were nonpalpable and nontender. Salem Falls
- The two uteruses had a common cervix; the anterior of the two organs had no adnexa, though there were lateral peritoneal ligaments; it had become pregnant. '' Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- Physical findings include a normal or slightly enlarged uterus, pelvic pain with movement of the cervix and a palpable adnexal mass.
- As a component of her postoperative evaluation for metastatic disease, a computed tomographic scan of the pelvis revealed a 6-cm, heterogenous, solid to cystic, left adnexal mass.
- There was no ovarian tissue in the right adnexa.
- -- Complete prolapse of the uterus, with eversion of vagina (Keen and White). with its adnexa; connected with this uterus was another one, anterior to it. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine