Word: cervix
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...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...
...commercial big tune until Entrepreneurs Bob Bissett and Marie Shields teamed with Fort Lauderdale Obstetrician William Eller in 1975. Eller selected as their recording artist a nonsmoking, well-nourished pregnant woman, waited until she began labor and then inserted a tiny microphone through her dilated cervix into her uterus...
...reasonable recommendation, suggests Dr. Arthur Herbst, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago in an editorial accompanying the report, is for women with a history of miscarriage-or whose cervix has begun to dilate-to avoid intercourse and orgasm inthelast trimester...