Word: cervix
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Beth Israel researchers observed 178 DES daughters, some of them from puberty. Initially, 121 had cervical ectopy, a condition in which misplaced glandular tissue grows on the cervix. But subsequent examinations revealed that this tissue was being replaced gradually; in many of the young women the ectopy disappeared. At the start of the study, 123 women had fibrous ridges growing around their cervical walls; this "hood" later receded in 52% and vanished in 28%. But the good news has a bad side. If DES daughters lose their abnormal cervical "markers" and neglect checkups, doctors may not monitor them for another...
...FALL IN LOVE and you plunge in blind like a little boy in a swimming hole and you find that her cervix is a razor, and all the vascular urgency of your passion lies split bleeding across the severe edge of experience, and what do you do? When Eros lies manacled in debtor's prison? When all the meat is sucked out of your egg, and all that remains is a thin calcic parody of what might at least have been an omlette? God created women to provide life with a metaphor for itself, and the name of that life...
Herpes has been linked to cancer of the cervix, which afflicts an estimated 16,000 U.S. women in its serious form and contributes to 7,400 deaths a year. But whether herpes actually causes cancer is a matter of debate. There is no doubt that herpes can be passed on to newborn babies if mothers have an active infection at the time of delivery. Each year several hundred babies are born with herpes simplex; more than half die, and survivors often suffer permanent neurological damage. One precaution being taken by some doctors is to order caesarean deliveries, a less emotionally...
Until now, doctors have tried to prevent or halt early labor by bed rest, sewing up the cervix, prescribing sedatives, hormone inhibitors, various drugs, even alcohol. But these tactics were only partially successful and sometimes produced unpleasant side effects-alcohol, for example, may cause vomiting, diarrhea, tearfulness and headaches...