noun
definition
The womb, an organ of the female reproductive system in which the young are conceived and develop until birth.
Examples of uteri in a Sentence
This opening in a uterus which has never been pregnant is a narrow transverse slit, rarely a circular aperture, but in those uteri in which pregnancy has occurred the slit is much wider and its lips are thickened and gaping and often scarred.
The apex leads into the canal of the cervix, but between the two there is a slight constriction known as the os uteri internum.
Into the former the ovaries project, though the lumen of the lateral body-cavity is quite shut off from the lumina of the ovaries or uteri.
There are two series of ovaries extending through a large part of the body and accompanied by two uteri; the latter open by two oviducts which debouch into an atrium which also receives the intestine and a single receptaculum seminis, and is continued backward as the cloaca; this opens posteriorly.
The ovaries are epithelial sacs which open into the uteri.
The two uteri join behind and open to the exterior by a median opening.
The lower half is the neck or cervix and is cylindrical; it projects into the anterior wall of the vagina, into the cavity of which it opens by the os uteri externum.
The uterus is two-horned, with the cornua opening separately into the vagina or uniting to form a corpus uteri.
The uterus may be double, each division opening by a separate os uteri into a common vagina, as in Leporsdae, Sciuridae, and Hydrochoerus, or two-horned, as in most species.
At the same time I found the pylorus persistently closed and accurately shut, like the os uteri on the fetus.
They have transplanted bone marrow cells into living embryos in the uteri of animals to approach congenital diseases, birth defects, and mental retardation.