womb

A caesarean, or C-section, is a major operation to deliver a baby through a cut made in a woman's stomach and womb.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

This meant that children born just a few months apart had very different levels of sugar exposure both in the womb and during early childhood.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

She would need a full hysterectomy to remove her womb, which would put her into immediate menopause, and means she is not able to have children.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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

Inside the womb, the baby hears the mother’s heartbeat, the rushing sound of amniotic fluid and the mother’s voice.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

After the 2017 study generated extensive media coverage, fears spread that artificial wombs could one day replace pregnancy.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2023

Dr Stewart said some of those women are having to make "life-changing decisions" about having their ovaries, wombs and fallopian tubes removed to "manage their premenstrual symptoms".

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2023

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