What does the word uterus mean?
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[ Latin] The womb; the organ in which the fetus develops during pregnancy. It is a pear-shaped organ, consisting mainly of unstriated muscular fibres, covered externally by a layer of peritoneum( serous coat), and lined internally by a mucous coat containing numerous mucous follicles( uterine glands) and invested with ciliated epithelium. The u. consists of a body and cervix. The cavity of the body is triangular, the two upper angle( cornua) communicating with the two Falloppian tubes, and the lower angle( os uteri internum) communicating with the spindle-shaped cavity of the cervix, which, in turn, opens into the vagina by the os uteri externum. U. masculinus, the sinus pocularis of the male urethra.
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