How to Use endometrium in a Sentence

endometrium

noun

• As women age, the endometrium tends to thin, and the rate of IVF failure increases.
  — Kate Morgan, The Cut, 27 Mar. 2018
• Uterine polyps: These are growths that pop up in your endometrium, per the Cleveland Clinic.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 17 May 2018
• Endometrial cancer, which Moore had, takes root in the layer of cells that forms the lining of the uterus, also known as the endometrium.
  — Erika Stallings, SELF, 6 Nov. 2019
• The endometrium, which lines the uterus and is shed during menstruation, has also been linked to the immune system.
  — Knvul Sheikh, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2022
• Endometriosis happens when fragments of the endometrium (the lining of the uterus) develop in places other than the uterus.
  — Serena Coady, SELF, 4 Mar. 2022
• Endometriosis Endometriosis is a condition where cells similar to the ones that line the inside of the uterus—the endometrium—grow outside the uterus.
  — Samantha Lauriello, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
• The most common form of uterine cancer is endometrial cancer, which starts in the endometrium (the inner lining of the uterus).
  — Katherine Hobson, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
• No one knows for certain how or why endometrial cells show up outside the endometrium.
  — Jena Pincott, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
• Doctors discovered Fatu had major changes in her endometrium, the inner layer of her uterus.
  — Sheeka Sanahori, USA TODAY, 22 July 2019
• They are used to treat a wide range of advanced malignancies, including melanomas and cancers of the lung, breast, colon, bladder, thyroid and endometrium.
  — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• The menstrual cycle is the monthly series of changes a body goes through, in the ovaries and the lining of the uterus (endometrium), in preparation for the possibility of pregnancy.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2021
• Endometriosis is a painful condition involving the growth of tissue similar to the endometrium — the inner lining of the uterus — in other places inside the body.
  — Sylvia Kohn-Levitt, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
• The muscular uterine wall — the myometrium, where cramps take place — is lined with the endometrium, which thickens during the cycle and then is shed during menstruation.
  — Perri Klass, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020
• Estrogen and progesterone hormone levels drop if an ovulated egg isn’t fertilized, and the endometrium, the thickened lining of the uterus, sheds.
  — Nikki Brown, ELLE, 26 June 2023
• Humans, unlike almost every other mammal, shed their entire endometrium — the womb’s inner lining — once a month and grow it back, whether or not a fertilized egg takes hold.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• The system comprises mouse ovarian cells (which produce the same hormones as human ovaries), along with human cells from the fallopian tube, endometrium and cervix.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
• The system comprises mouse ovarian cells (which produce the same hormones as human ovaries), along with human cells from the fallopian tube, endometrium and cervix.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 22 May 2017
• Endometriosis occurs when tissue similar to the inner lining of the uterus, also known as the endometrium, is found outside its normal location, where the tissue should not be.
  — Jennifer "jay" Palumbo, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• This is a type of endometrial cancer that starts in the endometrium and has features of both endometrial cancer and uterine sarcoma (a type of cancer that starts in muscle cells of the uterus), according to ACS.
  — Jenny McCoy, Health.com, 2 Feb. 2022
• In general, most experts go with the definition shared by the Mayo Clinic, which describes it as a painful disorder in which tissue that normally lines the inside of your uterus (the endometrium) grows outside your uterus.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 27 Apr. 2018
• Adding to the complexity are clues that the endometrium has a microbiome, which also becomes disordered in endometriosis.
  — Jena Pincott, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
• The blood that is lost during menstruation is the endometrium (the lining of the uterus), and after that lining is shed, the pituitary gland in the brain releases follicle stimulating hormone (FSH).
  — Kaitlyn Phoenix, Good Housekeeping, 29 June 2023
• According to the Office on Women’s Health, endometriosis is a painful condition in which tissue that is similar to the tissue that lines the uterus (endometrium) grows on areas outside of the uterus, like on the fallopian tubes or ovaries.
  — Serena Coady, SELF, 12 Apr. 2022
• At this point the general medical consensus is that endometriosis happens when the tissue that lines your uterus (endometrium) begins to grow on other organs.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 6 Oct. 2021
• At this point, the general medical consensus is that endometriosis happens when the tissue that lines your uterus (endometrium) begins to grow on other organs.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 1 Mar. 2019
• Hyperplasia in the uterus, known as endometrial hyperplasia, occurs when the lining of the uterus (endometrium) becomes too thick, per the Cleveland Clinic.
  — Caroline Kee, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
• Altering the endometrium has not been proven to interfere with implantation.
  — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• Other malignancies going up in younger Americans include those in the breast, endometrium, gall bladder and bile duct, kidney, pancreas, thyroid, stomach and plasma cells in the blood -- a cancer called myeloma.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
• Endometriosis, which affects one in nine Australian people with uteruses, is a disabling inflammatory condition whereby tissue that is similar to that which lines the uterus – called the endometrium – grows and spreads in other parts of the body.
  — Lucia Osborne-Crowley, refinery29.com, 26 July 2022
• More recently, doctors have argued that the tissue is made up of something similar in nature to the endometrium, but genetically different.
  — Abby Haglage, SELF, 25 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024