How to Use uterine in a Sentence

uterine

adjective
  • When there’s no sperm to fertilize the egg, the uterine lining sheds, and voilà!
    Julia Sullivan, SELF, 18 July 2024
  • Some of the most common: fibroids, polyps and benign uterine growths.
    Beth Anne MacAluso, Redbook, 27 Dec. 2017
  • These compounds cause contractions in the uterus to help shed the uterine lining.
    Laken Brooks, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • In 2018, the pair's seventh child, Oakleigh, died at birth as a result of a uterine rupture.
    Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In fact, Black women have the highest rates of death for uterine cancer of any racial/ethnic group.
    Ayana Byrd, Health.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The hemorrhage, on the other hand, was caused by uterine cancer.
    TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • For some uterine cancer patients, surgery isn't the best option.
    Jenny McCoy, Health.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The cause was uterine cancer, said her husband, David Petersen.
    Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The cause was uterine cancer, said her niece, Clarice Jacobson.
    Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Certain low-risk strains—there are, in fact, more than 100 types of HPV in all—can cause genital warts or benign or low-grade changes in the cells of the uterine cervix.
    Fortune, 8 Sep. 2017
  • How might the uterine environment leave a trauma trace in the offspring?
    Rachel Yehuda, Scientific American, 18 June 2022
  • Obese women have a 12-fold higher risk of uterine cancer.
    Matthew Herper, STAT, 8 June 2022
  • Even in the daytime the Roaring 20s is a uterine environment; dark, safe, and difficult to get out of.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 10 July 2020
  • Some of us out there may even have heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) due to uterine fibroids.
    Oriahnn Native, Essence, 9 Dec. 2020
  • In 2022, the NIH published a study stating the links between uterine cancer and hair relaxer use.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 3 June 2024
  • Kelsey Hatcher was born with two uteri, each with its own cervix — a condition known as uterine didelphys.
    Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • These models could be used to model healthy babies, and plan inter-uterine surgery.
    Joe Mullin, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2012
  • The method would be able to catch ovarian, breast, cervical, and uterine cancer.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2022
  • During the ultrasound, the technician sees what looks like a small bump on my uterine lining.
    refinery29.com, 30 July 2020
  • About 70% of women will have uterine fibroids – benign tissue masses in or around the uterus – in their lifetimes.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 15 June 2020
  • What followed was a miscarriage, a D&C, a hemorrhage, and a brief cancer scare; tests of uterine tissue turned out to be fine.
    Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • This causes the uterine lining to stop thickening and to break down, detaching the embryo.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 13 June 2024
  • This causes the uterine lining to stop thickening and to break down, detaching the embryo.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • This causes the uterine lining to stop thickening and to break down, detaching the embryo..
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 12 May 2022
  • The aim is to raise awareness around endometrial cancer, which is the most common form of uterine cancer.
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 5 Apr. 2022
  • These drugs block the body from producing estrogen and progesterone, which cause the uterine lining to build up.
    Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 20 June 2023
  • Uterine sarcoma is a rare type of uterine cancer that forms in muscle or other tissues of the uterus.
    Jenny McCoy, Health.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • In 2012, Butera was diagnosed with Stage IV uterine cancer.
    Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2022
  • All were between the ages of 20 and 40, had uterine infertility and had at least one functioning ovary.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The influx in estrogen from the growth of those extra eggs also stimulates the thickening of your uterine lining, meaning more tissue then has to come out.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 4 Oct. 2024

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