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US
/ˈwum/
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[ UK /wˈuːm/ ]
[ UK /wˈuːm/ ]
NOUN
- a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus
How To Use womb In A Sentence
- And at the same time the huge body tried to take the invader and enwomb it. The Gunslinger
- It's a striking image of traumatic birth from a monstrous, disembodied womb. Times, Sunday Times
- A warm, inviting womb of a restaurant, it's a place that improbably manages to rise above the staggering kitschness of waiters exchanging 'buon appetito' with diners who don't speak a word of the language either.
- It may act as such, by suppressing ovulation, but it also works by making the lining of the womb hostile to the newly conceived embryo.
- The vast majority die in the womb and many that survive have defects and deformities.
- During labour, the bag of water surrounding the baby in the womb often tears, and the water escapes through the vagina in a "gush". Chapter 12
- Athenians so far forgot their Philosophy, and the nature of humane production, that they descended unto belief, that the original of their Nation was from the Earth, and had no other beginning then the seminality and womb of their great Mother. El Hombre Que Comía Diccionarios
- The “right to privacy” meme, of course, is a strawman – by attaching some invented notion of “privacy” to the surgical process of electively vacuuming out a developing human life in pieces from the womb, the left thinks they make abortion a “right” – wholly and completely ridiculous. Think Progress » Samuel Alito’s America
- A wombat foraged through the underscrub searching for roots.
- A hysterectomy is a commonly performed operation to remove the uterus (womb).