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Webster 1913 Edition
Uterus
U′te-rus
,Noun.
[L.]
1.
(Anat.)
The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.
☞ The uterus is simply an enlargement of the oviduct, and in the lower mammals there is one on each side, but in the higher forms the two become more or less completely united into one. In many male mammals there is a small vesicle, opening into the urinogenital canal, which corresponds to the uterus of the female and is called the male uterus, or
[NL.]
uterus masculinus. 2.
(Zool.)
A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of
Hermaphrodite
in Append. Webster 1828 Edition
Uterus
U'TERUS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Uterus
Uterus
German
Noun
Uterus m (genitive Uterus, plural Uteri)
Declension
Declension of Uterus
Related terms
- uterin
uterus
uterus
English
Noun
uterus (plural uteri or uteruses)
- (anatomy) An organ of the female reproductive system in which the young are conceived and develop until birth; the womb.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- uterine
- corpus uteri
Related terms
- hystera
- hysteria
- hysterectomy
- in utero
Translations
womb — see womb
Anagrams
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
uterus belongs to the same family as Latin venter, Ancient Greek ὅδερος (hóderos, “belly, uterus”), Sanskrit उदर (udara, “belly, uterus”) and Lithuanian vė̃daras (“intestine, entrails”), but the details are not clear.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu.te.rus/
Noun
uterus m (genitive uterī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | uterus | uterī |
| genitive | uterī | uterōrum |
| dative | uterō | uterīs |
| accusative | uterum | uterōs |
| ablative | uterō | uterīs |
| vocative | utere | uterī |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- uterus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- uterus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “uterus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- ↑ “utero” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2