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womb
(wo͞om)n.
1. See uterus.
2.
a. A place where something is generated.
b. An encompassing, protective hollow or space.
3. Obsolete The belly.
[Middle English, from Old English wamb.]
wombed adj.
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womb
(wuːm)n
1. (Gynaecology & Obstetrics) the nontechnical name for uterus
2. a hollow space enclosing something, esp when dark, warm, or sheltering
3. a place where something is conceived: the Near East is the womb of western civilization.
4. (Anatomy) obsolete the belly
[Old English wamb; related to Old Norse vomb, Gothic wamba, Middle Low German wamme, Swedish våmm]
wombed adj
ˈwomblike adj
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womb
(wum)n.
1. uterus.
2. the place in which anything is formed or produced.
3. the interior of anything.
4. Obs. the belly.
[before 900; Old English, c. Old Frisian, Middle Low German wamme, Old High German, Gothic wamba, Old Norse vǫmb]
wombed, adj.
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womb
(wo͞om) See uterus.
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womb
- gestation - Literally the period during which unborn young are "carried" inside the womb—from Latin gerere, "carry" or "conduct."
- lightening - A drop in the level of the womb during the last weeks of pregnancy, as the head of the fetus engages in the pelvis.
- matrix - From Latin, meaning "breeding female," it originally was used for the uterus or womb, then for a supporting or enclosing structure.
- uterus - From the Latin word meaning "belly, womb."
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| Noun | 1. |  womb - a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetusarteria uterina, uterine artery - a branch of the internal iliac artery that supplies the uterus and the upper part of the vagina venter - the womb; "`in venter' is legal terminology for `conceived but not yet born'" female reproductive system - the reproductive system of females female internal reproductive organ - the reproductive organs of a woman Fallopian tube, oviduct, uterine tube - either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus uterine cavity - the space inside the uterus between the cervical canal and the Fallopian tubes endometrium - (pregnancy) the mucous membrane that lines the uterus; thickens under hormonal control and (if pregnancy does not occur) is shed in menstruation; if pregnancy occurs it is shed along with the placenta at parturition myometrium - the smooth muscle forming the wall of the uterus placenta - the vascular structure in the uterus of most mammals providing oxygen and nutrients for and transferring wastes from the developing fetus |
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womb
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Translations
رحمرَحْم
děloha
livmor
utero
kehtokohtu
leg
dzemde
maternica
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womb
n → Mutterleib m, → Gebärmutter f (Med); (fig) → Schoß m; the foetus in the womb → der Embryo im Mutterleib; it’s just a yearning to return to the womb → das ist nur die Sehnsucht nach der Geborgenheit des Mutterschoßes
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womb
(wuːm) noun the part of the body of a female mammal in which the young are developed and kept until birth.
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womb
n. matriz, útero. V.: uterus
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
womb
n útero, matriz f, vientre m (fam)English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.