Word: uteri
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...question for you all out there in dreamland: do you know where movies come from? Uteri, originally, but after that? Dragons. Dragons who make beautiful, beautiful babies...
Oddly, the two most familiar of Dr. Speert's great names are among the earliest and latest: Gabriele Falloppio (circa 1523-62), who vividly described the oviduct as uteri tuba, or trumpet of the uterus, and George Nicholas Papanicolaou, 75, whose technique for detecting early cancer by smearing vaginal secretions on glass slides for microscopic study of cells has become, since 1943, standard procedure in thousands of doctors' offices...
Before the old Pure Food & Drugs Act was passed in 1906, the label on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound proclaimed the tonic "A Sure Cure for Prolapsus Uteri or Falling of the Womb, and . . . All Weaknesses of the Generative Organs of Either Sex." Since 1906 the label has been modified several times to sidestep run-ins with Federal authorities...
...gave the new composition which does all that cocaine or procaine together with epinephrine does. Chemically epicaine is alpha (3, 4-dihydroxyphenyl) beta (paraaminobenzoylbetadiethylaminoethanol) al-phaethanonehydrochloride. Dr. Osborne proved this strange substance's efficacy on the "frog's sciatic plexus . . . the cat's blood pressure, the uteri of the guinea pig and cat, the gut of the cat, rabbit and monkey, the excised frog's eye and the Pupil in the intact...
...amniotic fluid is collected at the slaughter house from heavy western beef after government inspection of each animal. The uteri of cows two to five months pregnant, only, are selected. At this early period the amniotic fluid is especially pure and potent. The product is further purified and concentrated by an elaborate chemical process in one of the country's leading pharmaceutical houses. The end product, highly purified, is now used to prevent peritonitis in all cases of abdominal surgery...