Word: fallopian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starting to scream at me"), Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, only a few weeks pregnant, was rushed 106 miles from Long Island to a Manhattan hospital. There, while Husband Arthur Miller waited, doctors performed an hour-long operation to end a tubal pregnancy (in which the tiny ovum grows in the Fallopian tube instead of in the uterus). Said Miller afterward: Marilyn felt "as well as could be expected," still planned to have children...
...three scientists - R. L. W. Averill, C. E. Adams and L. E. A. Rowson -flushed out newly fertilized ova from the Fallopian tubes of freshly killed pregnant ewes. Then they transplanted the tiny ova to the reproductive tracts of seven female rabbits which had been mated previously with sterilized males to activate their hormone systems. Five days later, the rabbits were killed and the sheep eggs taken out in surgery. The ova had grown as in any pregnancy. Two of the best-developed eggs were replanted in a nonpregnant ewe; 16 days later, the scientists found that the twice-switched...
...operation are married and explain either that they want no more children or that it would be dangerous for their wives to have more. They have heard that the operation for the man is simpler, quicker and cheaper than the corresponding one for a woman (tying off the fallopian tubes...
...doing too much, said Dr. Matsner, the well-meaning physician may defeat his own purpose. The taking of basal body temperatures for many months, daily vaginal smears and repeated tissue tests can provoke anxiety that leads to tension and to spasm of the fallopian tubes. "By the time a woman gets through with these tests," Dr. Matsner said, "she is so tense that conception is impossible. The poor girl is thinking of exact times and methods, instead of relaxing and letting nature take its course. The couple's sex life should not be regulated by the calendar or dictated...
...Stephens delivered the boy baby by Caesarean section. It took but a minute for him to tie off the Fallopian tubes with surgical thread, so that Mrs. Gonzales would not become pregnant again. Dr-Stephens closed the peritoneum (the membrane lining the abdominal cavity...