womb
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Endometriosis is a chronic condition in which cells that are similar to the lining of the womb grow in other parts of the body.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Hayek Pinault dedicated the award to Dolores Huerta, who attended the gala last year, and called Huerta “a womb for our community.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
About 160 million years ago, near the end of the Jurassic Period, the common ancestor of all placental mammals, whose young develop in the womb, appeared.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
In the UK, a sperm or egg donor can withdraw consent up until the embryo is transferred into the womb.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Of these two were the nations of men born, out of the flesh of Edondurath, out of Edondurath’s womb.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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
Some researchers also worry that artificial wombs would represent an expensive technological solution to a deeper problem.
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
They were all hidden away on the longbeds in their bags like babies in wombs, invisible, indistinguishable.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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