womb
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Usually, treatment involves inserting a needle into the womb to either drain some of the fluid or seal blood vessels using a laser.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
By the end of “Made in America,” Nakajima is no longer trying to find her way back to her mother’s womb.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
IVF involves stimulating the ovaries to produce eggs, retrieving them, fertilising them in a laboratory and then implanting the resulting embryo back into the womb.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Most often, cramping is a normal part of the menstrual cycle when the womb muscle contracts to help shed its lining as a period.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
He had wept in his mother's womb and had been born with his eyes open.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No details have been made public about the three women who have so far received wombs from deceased donor organs.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025
With this new definition, people who need to “borrow” DNA and wombs from fertility helpers—egg donors, sperm donors, and gestational carriers—have more protection from being discriminated against at fertility clinics and by insurance companies.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2023
To make it weirder, the association that trained Johnson bases their ideas on the teachings of the Greek physician Hippocrates, who died in 370 B.C., and believed that women's wombs could "wander" through their bodies.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2023
The development of artificial wombs represents a “big transformational leap” that “solves lots of issues,” says David.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2023
Were they aware of the children growing in their wombs?
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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