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).
I've read horrifying stories of what happens when a child is aborted, babies being torn to pieces inside the womb, then sucked out, etc etc.
A scan determines the position of the baby in the womb.
For those who were still in the womb when their fathers died the gap widened to two years and ten weeks. Times, Sunday Times
The fertilised embryos are then tested for the defective gene in a lab and those that are not affected are implanted in the womb. The Sun
Sanskrit _bharna_, which signifies "the borne one," "that which is born," from the primitive Indo-European root _bhr_, "to bear, to carry in the womb," whence our "to _bear_" and the German The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
We get the image of a man's face struggling to break free of what appears to be some sort of womb.
The crone’s cauldron is a deep part of the Halloween myth that represents the cosmic womb. The Crone and the Cauldron « bindu wiles
Most diprotodonts have three pairs of incisors in their upper jaws, but this number is reduced to one pair in one family, the wombats.
You can be expedient at the same time, and practical," Womble said sharply. A DAY'S LODGING
Tims as to the male organs, the filaments are the fpermatic veffels, the anthera the tefticles, and the duft of the anthera correfponds to the fperm and feminal animalcules; and as to the female, the ftigma is the internal part of the female organ which receives the duft, the ftyle anfwers to the vagina, the germ to the ovarv, and the perlcarpium, or fecundated ovary, to the womb. A treatise on the culture of the cucumber; shewing a new and advantageous method of cultivating that plant, with full directions for the management thereof, and the degree of heat it requires on every day of the year; and a meteorological journal of the w
With this clue we recognise that the big pink splodge that occupies the rest of the paper must be Venus - Twombly's inept attempt to paint a recumbent nude; if, however, we read the breasts as heads, the splodge could equally well be interpreted as the lovers sexually engaged, the detached penis now a superfluous synecdochism. Evening Standard - Home
Pain rippled outward from her womb, crawling up her spine and down her legs. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The mammals include a number of well-known animals such as the eastern grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus, the red-necked wallaby M. rufogriseus, wallaroo M. robustus, koala Phasocarctos cinereus and wombat Vombatus ursinus, the greater glider Petaurus volans, the squirrel glider P. norfolcensis, mountain brushtailed possum Trichosurus caninus; also the rarer spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus (VU), long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus (VU), yellow-bellied glider Petaurus australis and brush-tailed rock wallaby Petrogale penicillata (VU). Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
But "I was hitting the the wombat" is not only active voice, but an image of strength and muscularity. Hunting Down the False Passive
With the growth of anatomical knowledge, the literal hypothesis of the morbidly wandering womb became increasingly untenable.
Total hysterectomy - the womb and cervix are removed. The Sun
And more than one quarter of all newborn deaths are attributed to restricted growth in the womb due to maternal undernutrition.
God forbid the extensive STD testing, including HIV testing, would prevent such diseased babybatter from making it into the pure womby tot-ovens of our mamacitas-to-be. Birthday Sperm « Skid Roche
Hysteria was at one time thought to be caused by the womb moving upwards due to the influence of malign humours.
Walter Pater "gambolling," in the moonlight, on the velvet lawn of his own secluded Oxford garden, like a satin-pawed Wombat! Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
weeble gorfer wombat whosis," which is pretty much what they hear no matter what you say. StarTribune.com rss feed
New ideas, images and beliefs began to gestate in what felt like a nurturing womb. Elizabeth Cunningham: Credo: Community Without Conformity
See hungryhead for pictures of the cutest bleached blond surfie wombat you have ever seen. Archive 2006-08-01
I also stroked a wallaby/kangaroo/wallaroo - there were loads of them just wandering around freely amongst the visitors which I thought was great - and saw echidnas, emus, cassowaries, a dingo (looked like any other dog!), wombats, Tasmanian devils, quokkas (never heard of them), bilbies (likewise!), flying foxes (great big brown bats), and tiny penguins. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
A puny midwife fumbles with exploding plaster wombs, plastic foetuses, rubber birth canals and disintegrating umbilical cords.
O destiny! to what a life of pain and sorrow didst thou bear me beyond all men that ever were, e'en from the very first; yea for when I was yet unborn, or ever I had left my mother's womb and seen the light, Apollo foretold to Laius that I should become my father's murderer; woe is me! The Phoenissae
Warm, dark, the maroon velvet seats remind me of the womb, and then there's the spermatic smell of popcorn.
However, the slaver is impressed by his spirit and decides he shall be trained as a Tunnel Warrior for the upcoming war with the wombat-riding Warriors of Doom. Getting momentum into Chapter 1
Phil Kirk, executive director of North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry, calls Womble's bill a well-intentioned but unfair, burden. Sweetness & Light
She has had two surgical procedures to try to ease her symptoms, one in her early 30s to have polyps and fibroids removed, and a second five years ago to remove the damaged lining of her womb - a procedure called endometrial ablation. BBC News - Home
Implantation somewhere other than the inside of the womb is known as ectopic pregnancy. Chapter 11
Then the doctor would surgically extract the eggs from the ovary, fertilize them, and reinsert them into the womb.
Amateur fossil hunters have helped to uncover the oldest known ancestor to kangaroos, koalas, possums, and wombats.
Well Kayne's waistcoat was made out of several native Australian animals, possibly possum, wombat, kangaroo and wallaby pelts, all sewn together.
A woman's pelvic floor supports the bladder, womb and the bowel.
This fertilised egg then needs to be implanted in the woman's womb.
A company, after having taken leave of their host, often went to finish the evening at the clachan or village, in ‘womb of tavern.’ Waverley
Each time she rounds a bend, she prays the boy will be there, enwombed in fog, casting, casting for fish, casting for her. The Shell Collector : Stories
The German zoologist, Ernst Haeckel, suggested, in this theory, the idea that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny means that as over the short time span of nine months, a fetus, in the womb, goes through ontogenetic phases of development, it recapitulates the stages of development we see as we go up the evolutional scale -- phylogenetically, that took billions of years to develop. Printing: A Book Review; The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi
The complete removal of the womb and both ovaries is a last resort. Times, Sunday Times
One in 80 pregnancies is ectopic, when the fertilized egg implants outside the cavity of the womb.
For example, it is suggested that lower doses cause more contraction of the womb, and higher doses have a more spasmodic effect and decrease the rate of contraction.
Your word assures me that you bless the fruit of my womb and that neither myself nor my husband shall be barren.
They carried us in their wombs for nine months, woke at unearthly hours to tend to our screams.
It seems to trigger a cascade of immune effects in the womb that could make it harder for embryos to flourish. Times, Sunday Times
There is, indeed, no surer way of checking or of stopping a metrorrhagia than by curetting the womb during the very flow. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism
I'm staring at a neat cubical wombat dropping, perched on the side of the path.
So how close are we to creating fully functioning artificial wombs, capable of gestating a human child from the embryonic stage to the fetal stage to a state of viability?
What incubi introduce into the womb is not any ordinary human semen in normal quantity, but abundant, very thick, very warm, rich in spirits and free from serosity.
Some of these new "ethicists" try to make a distinction between "potential" and "actual" human persons and relegate the child in the womb to the category of being only a "potential" human person. Catholic Online > Daily Readings
Women have two ovaries in their wombs and are the major source of female hormones, manufacturing oestrogen and progesterone.
It is generally due to an inflammation of the Fallopian tubes which closes up the openings of the tubes into the womb, so that no more ova can pass _from_ the ovaries _through_ the tubes _into_ the womb. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
Here, a path leads through a hay meadow to a children's glade with great womb-like basketwork swings.
One theory is that vitamin D might affect the lining of the uterus and thereby help embryos to establish themselves in the womb. Times, Sunday Times
(For the satisfaction of his patients, I may observe, parenthetically, that the skull and the "wombat" -- that last is a creature between a miniature pig and a very small badger -- were not precisely packed up with the sarsaparilla!) The Caxtons — Complete
This comes away as the "afterbirth" at parturition; at the same time, the part of the mucous lining of the womb that has united inseparably with the chorion is torn away; hence it is called the decidua ( "falling-away membrane"), and also the The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
Not only do you get a free slice of pizza with your first booze of the evening, but – if you're up for it – a table football competition will be running as DJs spin a laidback, non-threatening selection of sounds, with comforting chillwave, soothing soul and non-scary contemporary folk, the idea being to lull you into a womb-like state of squidgy comfort. Clubs picks of the week
It is home to possums, pelicans, the duck-billed platypus, the kookaburra, kangaroos and wombats, to name just those he found for us during our adventure into paradise.
The best metaphor for my sheltered existence is that of a womb with internet access.
So, hys means sow in Greek; and hystera means womb in Greek. Archive 2008-05-01
Like their koala cousins, wombats have a hardened layer over the muscles of their rump; a very hardened layer.
Your uterus (or womb ) sits behind your bladder and in front of your intestine. The Sun
The theater photographs can be read as an analogue for both the interior of a still camera and the womb.
Wombi Rock, an amazing three-story crystal mountain built inside the casino, is crafted from more than 12,000 individual plates of onyx and alabaster fused to glass.
The notion of "quickening" -- when the woman could first sense movement in her womb -- was sometimes used as a dividing line between ethical and unethical abortion. John Backman: Can 'I Don't Know' Break The Abortion Stalemate?
This discharge, called lochia, is blood mixed with material from the uterine lining that supported the baby in the womb. Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth
Under these circumstances the ligaments lose their elasticity, and as a result we have prolapsus or falling of the womb. Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics
The wall of the womb is swabbed and closed with stitches that will later safely dissolve.
An extreme degree of anteversion or anteflexion, or retroversion or retroflexion, may interfere with impregnation, as the spermatozoa may find it difficult or impossible to reach the opening of the womb -- the external os. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
No way that Asa Brown was involved in this Twombley business. AFFLICTION
UPDATE: Oscar Penaranda also notes that "prau" a prau can be a womb as how his mother carried him during WWII as they fled Manila to return to their home in the Island of Leyte, as well as that "prau" is the provenance, according to folktale, of Princess Urduha's historical and original name. Archive 2007-02-01
Stem cells from amniotic fluid have been used to repair windpipe defects in unborn lambs while still in the womb.
Hysteric - from the Greek, hysterikos - of or from the womb uterus: hystera; suffering caused by the womb. Archive 2008-05-04
The mammals include a number of well-known animals such as the eastern grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus, the red-necked wallaby M. rufogriseus, wallaroo M. robustus, koala Phasocarctos cinereus and wombat Vombatus ursinus, the greater glider Petaurus volans, the squirrel glider P. norfolcensis, mountain brushtailed possum Trichosurus caninus; also the rarer spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus (VU), long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus (VU), yellow-bellied glider Petaurus australis and brush-tailed rock wallaby Petrogale penicillata (VU). Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
Womb," the orgiastic religious festival of Aphrodite in Argos, where the Womb of the World was adored and symbolically fructified.1 by offering sacrifice, in this case, pigs? Archive 2008-05-01
So the extension of the term ‘marsupial’ is the set of all marsupials: kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, and so on.
Implantation of the embryo in the womb may underlie many such cases.
And should your butch man of the hour sign up for rebirthing classes to overcome trauma he suffered in the womb, you'll volunteer to drive him there.
Unluckily, this year's Constitution, which was formed, and its genethliacon sung by the noble author while it was yet in embryo, or was but just come bloody from the womb, is the only one which in its very formation has been generally resisted by a very great and powerful party in many parts of the kingdom, and particularly in the capital. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
Another is that it is far from clear how sugar or sweeteners could damage eggs in the womb or the ovaries. Times, Sunday Times
It was a beautiful, round, full placenta: dark red on one side - the villous side, which had been attached to the wall of my womb - and glistening silver on Jacob's side, due to the covering of his membranes.
He has used a chart recorder wired up to flaps with microswitches at 21 burrow entrances in a warren to record wombat activity.
Nephthys, [FN#303] and that Isis and Osiris, having a mutual affection, enjoyed each other in their mother's womb before they were born, and that from this commerce sprang Aroueris, whom the Egyptians likewise call Horus the Elder, and the Greeks Apollo. Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations
When the problems caused by exposure in the womb became known, DES daughters were advised to have annual exams with smears taken from the vagina and cervix, and those women with vaginal tissue abnormalities, such as adenosis, were found to have nearly 50% more auto-immune diseases than DES daughters without such abnormalities. DES Miscarriage Drug Linked to More Cancer
It is also my first chance to see the wonderfully unique wildlife here; kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, pademelons, possums, and various unique birds.
There are a variety of possums, early kangaroos, koalas, wombats and quolls, as well as marsupial groups that are now completely extinct.
The IUD is inserted through the cervix and into the womb, while the vagina is held open as in a cervical smear test.
Wombats (Vombatus ursinus tasmaniensis) are widespread on Tasmania, with a separate subspecies on Flinders Island, V.u. ursinus. Tasmanian temperate forests
Tears did not fall from her father’s eyes — not then, as her mother gasped her last; not later, when she herself wailed lustily at the indignity of being thrust out of the womb; and not after, when both mother and child were each bundled as appropriate, in shroud and blanket respectively. Archive 2003-01-01
This pressure lasts only the first two or three months, because after that the growing womb lifts itself out of the pelvis, rising into the abdominal cavity; it is no longer anteverted and the pressure on the bladder is relieved. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
The online survey is quick and easy to fill out, and if you don't know your wallabies from your wombats there's a picture gallery to help you.
However, it does not seem that those who raise the question of the instrumentalization of women's wombs are ipso facto talking nonsense, even if, ultimately, the procedure to which they object or about which they have concerns is morally justified, or the survival of certain embryonic human beings justifies resorting to a procedure one would otherwise not be justified in undertaking. The difficult issue of embryonic adoption
So the extension of the term ‘marsupial’ is the set of all marsupials: kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, and so on.
This early sucking of the child accomplishes another purpose besides the obtaining of this important laxative -- it also reflexly increases the contractibility of the muscles of the womb, which is an exceedingly important service just at this time. The Mother and Her Child
Many anti-abortionists claim that late-term abortion is unadulterated murder because the fetus could survive outside of the womb.
During the Pleistocene, herds of giant wombats the size of a rhinoceros roamed the plains of southern Australia.
The complete removal of the womb and both ovaries is a last resort. Times, Sunday Times
The pika and the bushytail woodrat and the northern water shrew found themselves stranded—just as the brown bandicoot and the wombat had been stranded, at about the same time, on those land-bridge islands between mainland Australia and Tasmania. The Song of The Dodo
LaRiviere's love of someone else, even a man like Evan Twombley, might be one. AFFLICTION
There, fishermen sold the French more animals, including dwarf emus, a tame kangaroo and several more wombats, all of which arrived safely in France on March 24, 1804.
One of the many items my so-censored biograph left out was that my only child died a-borning, from his mother's womb untimely ripped, ripping it and rendering her completely barren. The Ship Who Sang
She and her husband then underwent IVF treatment and two fertilised eggs were implanted in her womb earlier this year. Times, Sunday Times
The kerygmatic birth of Jesus into the world from the womb of the apostles 'faith cannot be a substantially different birth from the historical one that took place in Bethlehem, for there is only one Christ Jesus. Mary, Mother of God
Hysteria was at one time thought to be caused by the womb moving upwards due to the influence of malign humours.
Anst, here we have a wonderful beastie called a wombat which eats , roots and leaves… applies to male human species as well Cape Fear: Cycling Fashion's Reign of Terror Continues
The Dionysiac impulse remained a potent force in Twombly's work even as he was approaching 80. Cy Twombly obituary
The operation to transplant a womb takes six hours and new recipients have to wait a year to see if their body rejects it. Times, Sunday Times
Total hysterectomy - the womb and cervix are removed. The Sun
It can now be used to end so-called ectopic pregnancies, those that occur outside the womb, or in combination with another drug to induce abortion. Woman Waits To See If Pill Mix Up Harmed Embryo
Earlier this year he reportedly implanted a cloned human embryo in a woman's womb.
I speak now of ultrasound imaging, fetal heart monitoring electronically, hysteroscopy, fetoscopy - things that gave us a window into the womb. Bernard Nathanson: On his conversion to the pro-life cause
Aquatic experiences begin in the mother's womb where an infant is surrounded by amniotic fluid.
And a woman has just as many tiny eyes, toe-nails, hearts, tonsils, livers and so on dancing about in her womb. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
My good old Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has this to say about hyster- or hystero- comb form French or Latin, French hyster-, from Latin hyster-, from Greek, from hystera 1: womb. Womb - That from Which We Come, That to Which We Go
Thousands of years ago, there were giant kangaroos, huge wombats and six-metre long goannas.
It is supported by certain ligaments, the chief of which are the broad ligaments; but, on account of general weakness, too hard physical labor, or lifting heavy weights, the ligaments may stretch, and the uterus may sink down low in the vagina, and we then have the condition known as prolapse of the womb. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
Maybe you would see koalas, wombats, echidnas, brush tail and ring tail possums and emus if you're lucky.
Red: In regard to the 'preborn' of Suza's reality, a singleton is the medical reference to one fetus in the womb I'm alone...alone in the wombbbbb as opposed to twins, etc. Ladies and gentlemen, our first contestant.
These could range from implants that suppress ovarian activity to surgery to remove the ovaries and womb (hysterectomy) in extreme cases. Times, Sunday Times
If I had a womb I would populate them with homunculi, with replicas and simulacra. Architecture
For those who were still in the womb when their fathers died the gap widened to two years and ten weeks. Times, Sunday Times
Glad to meet you, Graham Womble," he said in conventional tones, as though acknowledging an introduction. A DAY'S LODGING
The device is removed and healthy embryos are put back into the lining of the womb. The Sun
But Jagannatha, now both insider and outsider, is convinced that the townspeople are still "embryos in the womb of God," which is why the Holeyaru "haven't yet found their voice in history. Hinduism Cast Against Modernity
As Gondwana broke up, the link was broken, and the Australasian marsupials evolved in isolation, giving rise to the modern groups of koalas, bandicoots, wombats, and kangaroos.
In the worst cases surgical removal of the womb and ovaries may be required. Times, Sunday Times
Cancer of the womb, cervix or ovary needs urgent treatment and in many cases hysterectomy is absolutely vital. The Sun
The resurrection of our bodies is a kind of coming out of the womb of the earth, and being born into another life. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
To the extent that those voices could on a given evening write themselves through Kafka, Kafka could experience even the ghastliest of them, even the sirens with their hideous claws and sterile wombs, even Gregor Samsa, as beauty itself: "[S] ie konnten nicht dafür, dass die Klage so schön klang" [ "They couldn't help it that their lament sounded so beautiful"] (Parables 92). Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites
In many cases it is possible to lift the womb back into place and this can last for up to ten years. The Sun
Australia once boasted a spectacular megafauna including giant wombats as big as grizzly bears and giant kangaroos.
The smear, or Pap test, identifies early changes in the cells of your cervix - the lower part of the womb - which if not discovered and treated can become cancerous.
Reaching the next homestay in only two hours, we begin a 45-minute journey into the womb of a nearby cave.
Docs cut or block the tubes between the ovary and the womb. The Sun
Details of previously affected pregnancies - particularly transfusions in the womb, neonatal anaemia, and the need for exchange transfusions or phototherapy - should also be obtained.
It would appear that ‘womb envy’ and male hysteria are no longer latent thematics to be teased out by the psychoanalytically-oriented feminist critic; such envy is the manifest content of the film.
I HAVE no doubt you could take a womb from one woman and put it in another. The Sun
So this indicates to me that when we come across a wombat with mange we must look at why it has the mange.
But how can we make sense of Easter among the menagerie of cutesie animals from chocolate bilbies, wombats and rabbits to milk chocolate footballs and all kinds of eggs? [easter] a post for you to skip over
But over the course of our antenatal classes, given by a genial, no-nonsense midwife called Viv who says things like "Can someone pass me my woolly model of the womb?", New Statesman
Prenatal tests for some of these single-gene maladies -- known as monogenic diseases -- are available today, but they require a needle to be inserted into the mother's womb and therefore carry a small risk of miscarriage. Prenatal Test Has Promise, Study Shows
So do wombats, hyraxes, aye-ayes, and lagomorphs, to give a few examples chosen from modern mammals.
We find the twins fresh out of the womb still covered in vernix. Times, Sunday Times
It is to be noted, however, that a child cannot sue its mother for negligent harm done to it whilst in the womb.
It's caused by the lining of the womb appearing in places where it shouldn't outside of the womb but still responding to hormones, growing and bleeding monthly.
Some people keep wandering aimlessly from womb to tomb. They seek nothing and achieve nothing. RVM
In Lugulu, Brain found mzuanda was the "one who perforates [perhaps sews?] the womb. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
Marsupials, such as the opossums of the Americas and the kangaroos, koalas, and wombats of Australasia, generally give birth to tiny immature young which then complete their developments in a pouch.
Sometimes it helps patients to think of the lining of the womb as a lawn. Times, Sunday Times
To the kangaroos and emus of the outback, I was able to add sightings of wallabies, a wombat, and an echidna.
The size of the woman's womb is measured to check the baby's growth and, after 20 weeks of pregnancy, the baby's heart may be listened to with a special stethoscope called a foetoscope. Chapter 9
The drug prostaglandin is injected into the womb and this causes it to contract strongly as in labour.
However, at birth our enwombed paradise is shattered as we are bombarded by light, noise, hunger and pain - for the first time. Peter Wolson: America's Racism: Hatred of "The Other" in the 2008 Presidential Election
From Fata Morgana, his essay on "demented colonialism" and the Sahara desert, to the calcified womb of the Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Herzog has made it his mission to respiritualise landscape, to allow fear, awe and wonder to reinhabit our perception of the natural world. Werner Herzog, the adventurous spirit
In this manner were two disconsolate damsels set at liberty from the womb of the leathern conveniency. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Thus, it is argued that pregnancy only comes within the law relating to abortion upon the implantation of the conceptus in the womb, not at the point of fertilization.
Numerous studies conclude that playing music to babies in the womb and in the early years helps build the neural bridges along which thoughts and information travel.
Don't want to see that womby outline. Times, Sunday Times
I felt a sudden flush and the child in my womb moved, stirred by the earth, the blood-red clay, Southern dirt laden with maltha, gilsonite and iron, feeding the unspeakable hunger. Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter
They try to perforate the uterus, to get the foetus out, but often lacerate the cervix along the way, so many bleed heavily or leave tissue in the womb which becomes infected. Unsafe abortion in Zambia
~ PFOS and PFOA linked to low birth weight -- "A U.S. study says exposure to perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) in the womb is linked to low birth weight and head circumference. Speedlinking 8/20/07
As Gondwana broke up, the link was broken, and the Australasian marsupials evolved in isolation, giving rise to the modern groups of koalas, bandicoots, wombats, and kangaroos.
In the end, artificial wombs are different from current technologies like IVF and modern arrangements like surrogacy, because they represent the final severing of reproduction from the human body.
Unless you were blessed with the genes of a supermodel or were reciting Shakespearean verse in the womb, there's a lot of truth in the old saying ‘don't give up the day job.’
Or, the womb may turn forward, when we have a condition of _anteversion_. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
Womble demanded, with a contempt in his voice equal to that in his face. A DAY'S LODGING
That a minor hiccup could occur during brain development in the womb, perhaps caused by a hormonal glitch, or environmental factors such as administration of diethylstilboestrol during pregnancy seems very plausible. Brains, Gender, Humour, Pain, and possibly Depression
One of the things your health care provider monitors is the size of your abdomen and the amount of amniotic fluid in your womb.
The defect can be detected in the womb by means of X-ray or ultrasound. Caring for your Unborn Child
One theory is that vitamin D might affect the lining of the uterus and thereby help embryos to establish themselves in the womb. Times, Sunday Times
Babies who are exposed to mercury while in the womb can suffer severe damage to the nervous system and may die.
Dawg was spit out of the womb on a cold and violent night in 1942 near Montgomery and I´m a sumbitch if I understand why I should take pride in where my mama excreted me upon the planet. Driving to Merida from California
Fallopian tube; the upper portion of the uterus is called the fundus; the external opening of the womb, situated in the center of the cervix, is called the mouth of the womb, or the _os_, or external os. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
Wroe's team recognized that for marsupials (like koalas, wombats, and kangaroos) brain size could be used to estimate overall body weight.
The accidents which pass during the months of percipiency in the womb of the mother produce a real effect. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
Each impossibly soft, downy robe feels like a little chunk of heaven that's so incredibly snuggly that being swaddled in one is like returning to the womb.
The theater photographs can be read as an analogue for both the interior of a still camera and the womb.
Like their koala cousins, wombats have a hardened layer over the muscles of their rump; a very hardened layer.
On Terra these include kangaroos, wallabies, bandicoots, opossums, and wombats.
A common example of this is the cervical smear test, which is a biopsy of the cells around a woman's cervix, the neck of the womb.
She will have an ultrasound scan of the womb, tubes and ovaries.
Chinamen (cited by Mr Candidate Mulligan) in consequence of defective reunion of the maxillary knobs along the medial line so that (as he said) one ear could hear what the other spoke, the benefits of anesthesia or twilight sleep, the prolongation of labour pains in advanced gravidancy by reason of pressure on the vein, the premature relentment of the amniotic fluid (as exemplified in the actual case) with consequent peril of sepsis to the matrix, artificial insemination by means of syringes, involution of the womb consequent upon the menopause, the problem of the perpetration of the species in the case of females impregnated by delinquent rape, that distressing manner of delivery called by the Brandenburghers STURZGEBURT, the recorded instances of multiseminal, twikindled and monstrous births conceived during the catamenic period or of consanguineous parents — in a word all the cases of human nativity which Aristotle has classified in his masterpiece with chromolithographic illustrations. Ulysses
Upon examination, we discovered a hard, incompressible tumor, represented in Fig. 18, attached to the posterior wall of the uterus, which caused anteversion of the womb, and which pressed upon the rectum so as to produce great obstruction. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
The young are ejected from the womb before they are completely developed and complete their term in an external pouch.
These were embryonate in the womb of reason, coming to the birth, but needing the "maieutic" or "obstetric" art, that they might be brought forth. [ Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
Thou wast called, and not miscalled, a transgressor from the womb. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
It's a striking image of traumatic birth from a monstrous, disembodied womb. Times, Sunday Times
Wombat Creek Winery is an independent privately owned company producing fine wine as an art.
He hauled the crimson obstacle from her womb.
You know about ovary, womb and cervix cancer. The Sun

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