How to Use uterus in a Sentence

uterus

noun
  • The egg cell is then transferred to the uterus of a sow.
    Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
  • This ball of cells then attaches to the lining of the uterus.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023
  • That same uterus has to do a lot of work to contract back down to pre-pregnancy shape.
    Arianna Bradford, Parents, 29 July 2023
  • After all, your ovaries and uterus are not like an atomic clock.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The drugs shrank some of the masses, but the primary tumor in my uterus kept growing.
    Amy Ettinger, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
  • From there, the surgeon operates on the baby, while keeping it in the uterus.
    Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Do his constant reminders of your value as a uterus work for you?
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The two laughed when Toppin told Teske that her bladder was full and had pushed the uterus away from its usual spot.
    Sadia Rafiquddin, STAT, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Avoid lying on your right side or flat on your back, which puts the full weight of your uterus on the vena cava.
    Parents Editors, Parents, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Endometriosis is a disease that affects the uterus and other parts of the body.
    Tori Crowther, Allure, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And meanwhile, women are over here with a swarm of bees in our uterus and our skin falling off.
    Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Uterine fibroids are benign growths that appear in or close to the uterus.
    Sarah Bradley, Women's Health, 28 July 2023
  • The rest of the ultrasound wasn’t so bad, though: The familiar feeling of gel on her stomach, the sight of her uterus in grayscale.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Doctors said her uterus still does not look normal, Anaya said.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 15 May 2023
  • Absolutely no one wants to hear what your plan is for their uterus.
    Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Or cancer of the colon, uterus, pancreas, kidney, ovary and others?
    Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The increases seen among younger women were likely driven by the rise in cancers of the breast and uterus.
    Lindsey Bever, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
  • This happens when the tissue lining the inside of the uterus grows into the uterine muscles.
    Kristine Thomason, Health, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The uterus transplant takes place and six months later, the embryo is implanted.
    Williesha Morris | Wmorris@al.com, al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Dana Taylor: Today these embryos need a uterus to gestate, but that may not be the case in the future.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Try a pelvic support garment, which can keep your uterus from pushing down on your pelvis.
    Rebecca Stewart, Parents, 6 Sep. 2023
  • By removing the uterus, fibroids can't come back and symptoms should go away.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2022
  • On the third day, Nuzzo, the nurse-midwife, induces the delivery of fetal tissue from the uterus.
    Maggie Shannon, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Throughout this stage, estrogen levels climb, leading to a thickening of the uterus to get ready to host the egg.
    Kristin Canning, Women's Health, 10 May 2023
  • In July, doctors found a football-sized tumor on her uterus and left ovary.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 28 Sep. 2022
  • This is because the tissue in fat cells makes estrogen, which can form abnormal cells in the uterus.
    Deanna Taylor, Essence, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The program is one of four uterus transplant programs in the United States and the first in the world to open outside of a clinical research trial.
    Williesha Morris | Wmorris@al.com, al, 24 July 2023
  • The following year, a woman in Texas who had been born without a uterus became the first to gave birth to a baby in the U.S. after a uterus transplant.
    Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 26 July 2023
  • Progesterone is needed for the pregnancy to grow inside the uterus.
    ABC News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Mifepristone also softens the cervix to help the uterus empty itself.
    Colleen De Bellefonds, SELF, 24 Aug. 2022

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