womb

womb  (wm)

n.

1. See uterus.

2.

a. A place where something is generated.

b. An encompassing, protective hollow or space.

3. Obsolete The belly.

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[Middle English, from Old English wamb.]

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wombed adj.

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womb [wuːm]

n

1. (Medicine / Gynaecology & Obstetrics) the nontechnical name for uterus Related adj uterine

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. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) Obsolete the belly

[Old English wamb; related to Old Norse vomb, Gothic wamba, Middle Low German wamme, Swedish våmm]

wombed  adj

womblike  adj

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womb  (wm)

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."

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

womb - a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus uterus cervix uteri, uterine cervix, cervix - necklike opening to the uterus arteria 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 noun

Related words
technical name uterus
adjective uterine

Translations

womb [wuːm] N → matriz f, útero m (fig) → cuna f

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womb [ˈwuːm] n

(= uterus) → ventre m

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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] n (Anat) → grembo

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womb

n womb [wuːm]

the part of the body of a female mammal in which the young are developed and kept until birth. baarmoeder رَحْم утроба děloha livmor die Gebärmutter μήτρα matriz, útero emakas, üsk زهدان؛ رحم kohtu utérus רֶחֶם गर्भ utroba méh rahim leg utero 子宮 자궁 gimda dzemde rahim schoot livmor łono útero uter матка maternica maternica materica livmoder มดลูก rahim, döl yatağı 子宮 матка رحم dạ con 子宫