The hollow thick-walled muscular organ in the female PELVIS. It consists of the fundus which is the site of EMBRYO IMPLANTATION and FETAL DEVELOPMENT. Beyond the isthmus at the perineal end of fundus, is CERVIX UTERI (the neck) opening into VAGINA. Beyond the isthmi at the upper abdominal end of fundus, are the FALLOPIAN TUBES.
    

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Dissection of a pregnant uterus, showing the foetus at nine months, with the head positioned towards the vagina and the lower part of the placenta under the child's head, detached from the uterus. Copperplate engraving by J. Mitchel after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.

Dissection of the pregnant female abdomen, showing the skin peeled away to reveal the swollen uterus and the viscera, side view. Copperplate engraving by G. Scotin after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.

Dissections of the pregnant uterus and the corpus luteum in the left overy, at five months: three figures. Copperplate engraving by E. Du Mesnil after J.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.

Initial dissection of the pregnant female abdomen, showing the skin peeled away to reveal the swollen uterus. Copperplate engraving by F.S. Ravenet after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.

Prolapsus uteri (falling of the womb) and how to cure it / by Mrs. Clara E. Slater.

A treatise on the chronic inflammation and displacements of the unimpregnated uterus.

Clinical measurement of uterine forces in pregnancy and labor / by S.R.M. Reynolds, Jerome S. Harris, Irwin H. Kaiser.

Pregnancy & human development

Retroversion and retroflexion of gravid uterus. Some points in the technique of laporotomy. A series of cases of abdominal section / by J. Halliday Croom.

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Prolapsus uteri (falling of the womb) and how to cure it / by Mrs. Clara E. Slater.

A treatise on the chronic inflammation and displacements of the unimpregnated uterus.

Clinical measurement of uterine forces in pregnancy and labor / by S.R.M. Reynolds, Jerome S. Harris, Irwin H. Kaiser.

Pregnancy & human development

Retroversion and retroflexion of gravid uterus. Some points in the technique of laporotomy. A series of cases of abdominal section / by J. Halliday Croom.