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  • Actually, her pernicious habit of not calling things by their names had brought about a new confusion, for the only thing that the telepathic surgeons had found was a drop in the uterus which could be corrected by the use of a pessary.†   (source)
  • uterus.†   (source)
  • On the other hand I'm not old, I haven't suffered an injury to the head and there's nothing in my family background except tipped uteruses.†   (source)
  • Via diagrams he introduced me to my anatomy; he drew the little egg going down its hour glass into the sticky pocket of the uterus.†   (source)
  • That was her uterus.†   (source)
  • Maybe having a baby at seventeen screwed up my uterus, confused my hormones.†   (source)
  • Cunningham's dictated a vertical slice through the front of the uterus and then the operator was to gently pry the uterus open.†   (source)
  • I'm going to give you a local anesthetic and then perform a simple D&C, or what you'd call a scraping to clean out the uterus.†   (source)
  • A few days before, I'd gone light-headed when she'd only just mentioned the word uterus.†   (source)
  • The poor woman didn't have ovaries or a uterus any more.†   (source)
  • As for unusual animals, last week I treated a cow that had a bicornuate uterus.†   (source)
  • "Nursing stimulates the uterus, triggering it to expel the placenta," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • Travis took in the scene instantly, recognizing the prolapsed uterus and hoping he wasn't too late.†   (source)
  • Tumors the size of baseballs had nearly replaced her kidneys, bladder, ovaries, and uterus.†   (source)
  • In the uterus, under the ocean, to the lost halls of the human brain.†   (source)
  • Charcot believed that these delusions sprung from a woman's uterus—hystera in Greek.†   (source)
  • It wasn't only Prudence's ruptured uterus that was responsible for her death.†   (source)
  • It means that part of the uterus has turned inside out, and it's protruding.†   (source)
  • Just as Hema feared, there was a lateral tear in the uterus.†   (source)
  • He gently checked the uterus, and Molly twitched slightly.†   (source)
  • I need to clean the uterus, and then I'm just going to manipulate it a bit.†   (source)
  • He felt the uterus, turning it gently to see if there were any ruptures or necrotic areas.†   (source)
  • Travis stayed quiet, his hand moving rhythmically over the uterus.†   (source)
  • Focused on the uterus, he didn't answer.†   (source)
  • In their description of an abortion, Planned Parenthood explains, "Either a hand-held suction device or a suction machine gently empties your uterus."†   (source)
  • It is so firmly attached that if an inexperienced person tried to help the mother and pulled on the placenta by yanking the umbilical cord, the whole uterus would come with it.†   (source)
  • John had explained to Tita that sometimes, because of abnormalities, the placenta does not just implant in the uterus, it sends roots down into it, so that when the baby is born, the placenta does not detach.†   (source)
  • When Day drove her back to Hopkins for X-rays the following week, stone-hard tumors filled the inside of her abdomen: one on her uterus, one on each kidney and on her urethra.†   (source)
  • Gently empties your uterus?†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure how early to start that, but it turns out pregnant women have an increased need to pee almost immediately after conception, because of the increase in hormones and the fact that the uterus is expanding.†   (source)
  • It appeared they were doing everything they could to make the baby seem nonhuman ...in fact, they didn't seem to acknowledge there was a baby at all, just some random unwanted matter stuck in the uterus that needed to be sucked out.†   (source)
  • While Ibrahim held a kerosene lantern, Mortenson washed his hands with a kettle of hot water, then reached into Rhokia's uterus and pulled the decomposing placenta out.†   (source)
  • That ruptured Prudence's uterus.†   (source)
  • Likewise, Ramatou was suspiciously comatose as Dr. Kayode stitched up her uterus, put it back in her abdomen, and then sewed up the outer cut on her stomach.†   (source)
  • A blue-black collection of blood—a hematoma—stretched the broad ligament of the uterus, and it glowed in the light like the Host.†   (source)
  • The second initiative would be for the United States to sponsor a global drive to iodize salt in poor countries, to prevent tens of millions of children from losing approximately ten I.Q. points each as a result of iodine deficiency while their brains are still being formed in the uterus.†   (source)
  • The baby soon died inside the womb and the mother's death would follow shortly, most often due to a ruptured uterus or infection and septicemia.†   (source)
  • His subject was no longer just BMW parts or Veronica but sketches showing the vulva and uterus and uterine blood vessels.†   (source)
  • When Hema finally delivered the uterus, clamps and all, into a basin, she saw no pulsations in the abdominal aorta.†   (source)
  • The uterus bulged out of the wound.†   (source)
  • Her uterus is back in place, and it seemed to contract without any problems, but she needs to go to the clinic.†   (source)
  • At the surgery, which she at last agreed to, Hema had to remove both the fibroid and the uterus which it had swallowed.†   (source)
  • Travis rinsed the uterus, then rinsed it two more times before reaching for the lubricating jelly, hoping it would work.†   (source)
  • Hema's exam revealed that the "baby" was a giant fibroid of the uterus and the FHSH nothing but a rattle in a probationer's brain.†   (source)
  • She incised the uterus and tried to deliver the twin who sat higher in the uterus but was nevertheless head down, upside down.†   (source)
  • Distracted now by heavy oozing from Sister Mary Joseph Praise's soggy, friable uterus, Hema turned back from infants to the mother.†   (source)
  • Then the sunbeam fell directly on Sister Mary Joseph Praise's gravid uterus, which bulged out of the bloody wound like an obscenity on a saint's tongue.†   (source)
  • While Hemlatha meticulously resected uterus or repaired a bladder tear, Stone, who could not carry a tune, nevertheless whistled "God Save the Queen," which riled Hema.†   (source)
  • But in a remote village, without the help of anyone but her mother-in-law, she would suffer for days, her uterus trying to do the impossible, but succeeding only in ramming the baby's head against the bladder and the cervix, crushing those tissues against the unyielding bony pelvis.†   (source)
  • On those rare occasions when a woman with the mud of the field still fresh on her feet was brought in with a bull-gore wound that extended into the pelvis, or when a bar girl came with a knife or bullet wound near the uterus, Hemlatha and Stone would scrub together and enter the abdomen à deux, fussing at each other, bumping heads, and at times rapping each other's knuckles with the handle of the hemostat.†   (source)
  • AT LONG LAST he looked up, seeing as if for the first time the green tile going halfway up the wall, the swinging green door to the autoclave room, the glass instrument case, the bloody uterus with its necklace of hemostats lying in the green towel, the blue-black placenta right next to it on the specimen table, and the jade-colored ground-glass windows through which sunlight filtered.†   (source)
  • The X-rays showed a certain malformation of the uterus, I remember, which meant she could never have had a child; but that was quite apart, it had nothing to do with the disease.†   (source)
  • Gradually I became accustomed to the feel of things, and the necessity for keeping quite still when a contraction came on; the amazingly powerful muscles of the uterus clamped down on my hand and arm like a vise, grinding my own bones very painfully until the constriction eased, and I could resume my groping.†   (source)
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