Word: womb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That a healthy test-tube baby was born in an Ann Arbor, Mich., hospital last week is nothing so extraordinary; some 2,000 children conceived outside the womb have been born since 1978. But this particular little girl was born to a woman who is not her mother. Last summer a woman who could not carry a child had an egg fertilized by her husband's sperm in a laboratory. The embryo was then transferred to the womb of another woman...
...abortion or helping another to receive one. News of the action came out only last week when a local cable-television program aired a segment on abortion. During the show, Sorrentino heard a priest describe her as "Public Enemy No. 1 of all babies being killed in the womb in Rhode Island...
This issue is the last to be published under the aegis of the current executives, who, soon to be spat out of the womb of 14 Plympton St., must now find another way to avoid work and play gadflies to the University community...
...applause and cheers. Miners hugged one another. Some medical experts felt that the excess fat and surplus water in the tissues of the newborn had helped them to survive for such an extended period. They also assumed that the infants, having so recently emerged from the darkness of the womb, were less subject than older children or adults to the stress of being buried alive...
...childbirth. A baby can be infected with AIDS in the womb or during birth, probably from the mother's blood. The number of cases so far is very small, about 130 (some 180 children in the U.S. have the disease), but unhappily it is likely to increase. More parents are sure to be exposed to the virus, and a possibly large percentage, who for some unknown reason never develop symptoms, can unwittingly pass the virus to their children. (Both women and men who are not victims of AIDS can be carriers...