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Uterus — Hystera redirects here. For the state of mind, see hysteria. Womb redirects here. For other uses, see Womb (disambiguation). Uterus 1: fallopian tube, 2 … Wikipedia
Body Worlds — (German title: Körperwelten) is a traveling exhibition of preserved human bodies and body parts that are prepared using a technique called plastination to reveal inner anatomical structures. The exhibition s developer and promoter is a German… … Wikipedia
Uterus didelphys — Didelphys redirects here. For the genus commonly known as large American opossums, see didelphis. Uterus didelphys Classification and external resources ICD 10 Q51.1 ICD 9 … Wikipedia
uterus — /yooh teuhr euhs/, n., pl. uteri /yooh teuh ruy /, uteruses. Anat., Zool. the enlarged, muscular, expandable portion of the oviduct in which the fertilized ovum implants and develops or rests during prenatal development; the womb of certain… … Universalium
body — 1. The head, neck, trunk, and extremities. The human b., consisting of head (caput), neck (collum), trunk (truncus), and limbs (membra). 2. The material part of a human, as distinguished from the … Medical dictionary
Uterus — The uterus (womb) is a hollow, pear shaped organ located in a woman s lower abdomen between the bladder and the rectum. The narrow, lower portion of the uterus is the cervix; the broader, upper part is the corpus. The corpus is made up of two… … Medical dictionary
uterus — womb; n. the part of the female reproductive tract that is specialized to allow the embryo to become implanted in its inner wall and to nourish the growing fetus from the maternal blood. The nonpregnant uterus is a pear shaped organ, about 7.5 cm … The new mediacal dictionary
body — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. torso (See body); solid, mass; group, assemblage; substance, bulk; main part. See whole, party. II Physical structure Nouns 1. body, anatomy, torso; carcass, cadaver, corpse, remains (See … English dictionary for students
uterus — UK [ˈjuːt(ə)rəs] / US [ˈjutərəs] noun [countable] Word forms uterus : singular uterus plural uteruses or uteri medical the organ in a woman s body where babies grow. A less technical name for this is womb … English dictionary
uterus — [17] Latin uterus ‘belly, womb’ goes back ultimately to an Indo European *udero or *wedero , which also produced Sanskrit udáram ‘belly’, Latvian vēders ‘belly’, and possibly Greek hustérā ‘womb’ (source of English hysteria). It was first used in … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
