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cervix

/sur-viks/US // ˈsɜr vɪks //UK // (ˈsɜːvɪks) //

子宫颈,宫颈,子宫颈癌,宫颈癌

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cer·vix·es, cer·vi·ces [ser-vahy-seez, sur-vuh-seez]. /sərˈvaɪ siz, ˈsɜr vəˌsiz/. Anatomy.

    • : the neck, especially the back part.
    • : any necklike part, especially the constricted lower end of the uterus.

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Examples

  • Conrad was at the ob-gyn to check to see if, as the Maryland resident likes to put it, “My cervix is trying to kill me.”

  • She had to remove part of her cervix because her strain of HPV proved to be one of the more serious ones.

  • [Y]ou will know you have it right when you crush down on the clamp and see white gelatinous material coming through the cervix.

  • HPV led to early cervical cancer and the subsequent removal of nearly half her cervix.

  • She described how her own pregnancy had gone wrong at 17 weeks, when the fetus moved into her cervix.

  • On my urgent representations she allowed me to remove the cervix.

  • If there be any suspicion in this direction he should remove the cervix.

  • Should the condition of the cervix be in the least degree suspicious of cancer it must be extirpated.

  • In another case under my care I performed total hysterectomy for fibroids in ignorance that the patient had cancer of the cervix.

  • Six years later she came under my observation with a large granulating and bleeding growth on the cervix uteri.