[ adj ] of or involving the uterus <adj.pert> uterine cancer
Uterine \U"ter*ine\ (?; 277), a. [L. uterinus born of the same mother, from uterus womb: cf. F. ut['e]rin.] 1. Of or instrument to the uterus, or womb.
2. Born of the same mother, but by a different father.
Walter Pope, uterine brother to Dr. Joh. Wilki??. --Wood.
Stitches from routine uterine surgery had torn open, but nurses on three shifts failed to answer her pleas for help in November 1987, she said.
Difficult birth is considered to be an acceptable reason for a Caesarean only if a women fails to deliver after two hours of strong, regular uterine contractions.
Difficult birth is considered to be an acceptable reason for a Caesarean only if a women fails to deliver after two hours of strong regular uterine contractions.
Zion Hospital in San Francisco measured the women's uterine contractions with a tocodynamometer in a doctor's office for one hour, once a week, from the 28th to the 32nd weeks of pregnancy, Katz said.
The company said it expects the Food and Drug Administration to authorize additional uses for its uterine contraction activity monitor.
Six minutes later, nurses at a medical center near Mrs. Boss's La Canada, Calif., home are reviewing a record of uterine contractions that will tell them how she is doing in her battle to avoid having her baby dangerously early.
"D-and-C is not an immediate post-rape procedure," Shesser said, adding that emergency room physicians seldom resort to that procedure, which is a scraping of the uterine lining.