womb
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Endometriosis is where cells similar to those in the lining of the womb grow in other parts of the body, resulting in what Barnett has described as "bone-grinding, life-altering pain".
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Zika can spread from a birthing parent to their child in the womb and cause congenital disabilities, which notoriously led to panic after an outbreak erupted in Brazil in 2015.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Doctors have used ground-breaking surgery on an unborn baby to successfully correct a birth defect while he was still inside the womb.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
One in six women with endometriosis are estimated to leave the workplace due to the condition, which causes tissue similar to the lining of the womb to grow outside it.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
“Not the true parent is the woman’s womb that bears the child,” Apollo tells a sympathetic council of jurors.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
After the 2017 study generated extensive media coverage, fears spread that artificial wombs could one day replace pregnancy.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2023
Still, he and other neonatologists acknowledge that development of radical technology such as artificial wombs may be needed to move the needle much further.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021
And I am sure that, as all pendulums reverse their swing, so eventually will the swollen cities rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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