Word: uteruses
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...Modern medicine knows about ergot, but has rarely seen it in the form of an epidemic disease.* It is a black fungus that grows on wet grain, contains chemicals that powerfully affect the blood vessels and the nervous system. Doctors often use ergot extracts to start contractions in the uterus in childbirth...
...days later. Then the trouble began. There was profuse uterine bleeding, which could not be stopped even after she was readmitted to the hospital. Blood and plasma had to be given in large quantities. Finally the doctors decided that the only thing to do was to remove the uterus...
Negroes & Mongols. To complement the Negro on the south wall, Rivera painted on the north wall an oriental woman, with a white fetus cuddled in a transparent uterus. The white races, Diego elaborately maintains, are actually half-Mongol, half-Negro...
...wife of an unemployed carpenter and mother of five children, she became pregnant again last July. For five months, all went well. Then the uterus slipped through the abdominal rupture. Izene Hawley did not go to a doctor and didn't intend to. She cleaned the house, four miles outside Canon City, washed and ironed clothes for two small boys with an affinity for dirt (the older children were away from home), cooked for her husband and fed the chickens...
...Caesarean section. But before her appointment for surgery, Mrs. Hawley had cramps, was admitted to Parkview Episcopal Hospital. When Dr. Bramer got to her, the baby's foot had slipped back through the abdominal wall. With surprising ease, the baby's body was massaged out of the uterus, through the incision to a fairly normal delivery. Thelma Jean Hawley weighed...