Word: uterus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Naeye speculates that sperm or enzymes in the seminal fluid may somehow aid bacteria in penetrating the cervix and entering the uterus. But both Naeye and obstetricians are cautious about any wholesale proscriptions of sexual activity during pregnancy. They point out that the births studied took place between 1959 and 1966, when the fetal and infant death rate was much higher than now. Thus improved methods of caring for expectant mothers and newborn infants may have obviated some of the harm that could result from sex during pregnancy. Also, the analysis did not take into account the effect of intercourse...
Even if they survive, children under two will be permanently scarred by prolonged starvation. Most brain growth occurs in the uterus and before the age of two; adequate nutrition after that cannot remedy an earlier deficiency. For older survivors, recovery can be complete. Doctors warn, however, that a patient must be reintroduced carefully and gradually to food. The heart and digestive system are so weak that a sudden gorging can induce shock and death. Well-meaning G.I.s at the end of World War II inadvertently killed many concentration camp inmates by giving them big meals. It may take a month...
...artificial insemination and, about a week later, the live embryos-usually five, but sometimes ten or more-are withdrawn through the cervix by means of a catheter. Each embryo is then transferred, either by a six-inch incision in the side or directly through the cervix, to the uterus of a less perfect host mother, which carries the superior calf to full term. Since supercows, or "queen bees," can be bred seven times a year, each can produce 35 or more embryos annually. This can make the herd better but not significantly bigger since, even with embryo transfer...
...chief prosecution witness then testified that the fetus died within the womb because Edelin kept his hand in the uterus through an abdominal incision. The presiding judge at the trial said a manslaughter victim had to be "alive outside the body of the mother." Nonetheless, Edelin was convicted...