Marissa Jaret Winokur

I was 27, an unemployed actress living in a really crappy studio apartment. I had just moved to Los Angeles alone, away from my family. I had cervical and uterine cancer and I was told that I would never be able to carry a baby.

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Used in medical discussions about female reproductive health and conditions.

Medical Context

It's a scientific term, not commonly used in everyday conversation.

Technical Term

Refers specifically to female biology, as only females have a uterus.

Gender Specific

 hovering over a patient in the labor room. They were all desperately trying to save a woman's life. The patient was in shock. She had delivered a healthy baby boy a few hours before I arrived. Suddenly, she collapsed, became unresponsive, and had profuse uterine bleeding.

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 If the sperm carries an X chromosome, the baby will become female, while a Y chromosome will result in the baby becoming male. The fertilized egg, or zygote, divides repeatedly as it travels through the fallopian tube, implanting itself on the uterine wall

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 preparing to create a new egg and uterine lining the following month. The egg is the largest cell in the body and is protected by a thick, extracellular shell of sugar and protein called the zona pellucida.

Uterine