How to Use uterus in a Sentence

uterus

noun
  • The weight of the uterus can press on the spine and back muscles.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The egg cell is then transferred to the uterus of a sow.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The cervix sits at the lower, narrow end of the uterus, per the NCI.
    — Jenny McCoy, Health.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • These embryos are then placed in the uterus via the cervix.
    — Serena Coady, SELF, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Fibroids could cause the uterus to push against the back or butt.
    — Suzannah Weis, SELF, 21 July 2021
  • When the body starts to heat up, blood pulls away from the core and the uterus and rushes to the skin.
    — Amudalat Ajasa, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • The uterus and round ligaments stretch as the fetus grows in the womb6.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 18 May 2022
  • This ball of cells then attaches to the lining of the uterus.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023
  • She was warned of the slim chance that her uterus would be damaged.
    — Washington Post, 25 June 2020
  • The endometrium is the tissue that lines the inside of the uterus.
    — Kasandra Brabaw, Health, 19 June 2024
  • Polyps are also benign growths, and they can be found in the uterus or on the top of the cervix.
    — Wendy Wisner, Health, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Once the tube is inside the uterus, the provider will push the IUD into the uterus with a plunger and remove the tube.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Mph, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Her cancer is metastatic, spread from the uterus to the liver and lungs.
    — Jason Fagone, SFChronicle.com, 18 Mar. 2020
  • To her surprise, Aria finds an embryo lodged in the corpse’s uterus.
    — Waka Tsunoda, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Six of the 10 most common cancers are on the rise, including cancers of the breast and the uterus.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • That same uterus has to do a lot of work to contract back down to pre-pregnancy shape.
    — Arianna Bradford, Parents, 29 July 2023
  • Both work by changing the way sperm cells move in the uterus and prevent them from reaching an egg.
    — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2024
  • After all, your ovaries and uterus are not like an atomic clock.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The drugs shrank some of the masses, but the primary tumor in my uterus kept growing.
    — Amy Ettinger, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
  • From there, the surgeon operates on the baby, while keeping it in the uterus.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • In men, oral and throat cancers are on the rise, and liver and uterus cancers in women.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
  • In the words of Leslie Knope, uteruses before duderuses.
    — Lynsey Eidell, Glamour, 14 May 2020
  • Do his constant reminders of your value as a uterus work for you?
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The decrease in blood flow to the uterus and placenta — used to feed the baby — can result in low birth weight.
    — Amudalat Ajasa, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • The two laughed when Toppin told Teske that her bladder was full and had pushed the uterus away from its usual spot.
    — Sadia Rafiquddin, STAT, 31 Aug. 2023
  • These muscles support the bladder and bowel, as well as the uterus.
    — Kristina Behr, Parents, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Jill Martin spent years in pain from the fibroids growing in her uterus, but was able to brush it off.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 2 Mar. 2022
  • But in 2016 she was scanned again and doctors found at least six new tumors on her pelvis, uterus and right lung.
    — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Endometriosis occurs when cells from the uterus lining grow in other parts of the body, according to Mount Sinai.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The appointment the late pope helped facilitate was for a laparoscopic hysterectomy that would remove the uterus.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025

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