Downward displacement of the UTERUS. It is classified in various degrees: in the first degree the UTERINE CERVIX is within the vaginal orifice; in the second degree the cervix is outside the orifice; in the third degree the entire uterus is outside the orifice
Uterus -- Cancer -- Popular works : Johns Hopkins Medicine patients' guide to uterine cancer / Teresa P. Díaz-Montes ; series editors, Lillie D. Shockney, Gary R. Shapiro
The hollow thick-walled muscular organ in the female PELVIS. It consists of the fundus which is the site of EMBRYO IMPLANTATION and FETAL DEVELOPMENT. Beyond the isthmus at the perineal end of fundus, is CERVIX UTERI (the neck) opening into VAGINA. Beyond the isthmi at the upper abdominal end of fundus, are the FALLOPIAN TUBES --consider also terms at HYSTER-
A benign tumor derived from smooth muscle tissue, also known as a fibroid tumor. They rarely occur outside of the UTERUS and the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT but can occur in the SKIN and SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE, probably arising from the smooth muscle of small blood vessels in these tissues
Uterus -- history : Wombs with a view : illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century / Lawrence D. Longo, Lawrence P. Reynolds ; with a foreword by Kent L. Thornburg and an afterword by Catherine Y. Spong
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Uterus -- Magnetic resonance imaging : Surgical techniques of focused ultrasound ablation in benign uterine diseases / Yonghua Xu, Lixia Yang, Felix Wong, editors
