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womb

[ woom ]

noun

  1. the uterus of the human female and certain higher mammals.
  2. the place in which anything is formed or produced:

    the womb of time.

  3. the interior of anything.
  4. Obsolete. the belly.


womb

/ ·É³Ü˳¾ /

noun

  1. the nontechnical name for uterus uterine
  2. a hollow space enclosing something, esp when dark, warm, or sheltering
  3. a place where something is conceived

    the Near East is the womb of western civilization

  4. obsolete.
    the belly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

womb

/ ·É´ÇÌ…´ÇÌ…³¾ /

  1. See uterus
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ·É´Ç³¾²ú±ô¾±°ì±ð, adjective
  • wombed, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • wombed adjective
  • ³Ü²Ô··É´Ç³¾²ú verb (used with object)
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of womb1

before 900; Middle English, Old English: belly, womb; cognate with Dutch wam, German Wamme, Gothic wamba belly; wamus
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of womb1

Old English wamb; related to Old Norse vomb, Gothic wamba, Middle Low German wamme, Swedish ±¹Ã¥³¾³¾
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A couple whose daughter Molly died at 34 weeks in the womb have accused the Southern Health Trust of a "cover up" after they discovered medical notes had been "falsified".

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McEnany, a devout Christian, also quoted scripture in her announcement, including this line from Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.â€

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Endometriosis affects 1.5 million women in the UK, causing pain and extreme tiredness as a result of tissue similar to the womb lining growing elsewhere in the body.

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As we posthumously canonize David Lynch, it might be tempting to assume he came out of the womb the supremely confident, eccentric auteur the world became enthralled by in the 1980s and ’90s.

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Studies indicate that waiting to evacuate the uterus increases rates of sepsis for patients whose water breaks before the fetus can survive outside the womb, a condition called previable premature rupture of membranes or PPROM.

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