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womb

/woom/US // wum //UK // (wuːm) //

子宫,子宫内,娘胎,胞衣

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the uterus of the human female and certain higher mammals.
    • : the place in which anything is formed or produced: the womb of time.
    • : the interior of anything.
    • : Obsolete. the belly.

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Examples

  • For example, as a baby is developing hands in the womb, those hands start out with webbing between the fingers.

  • Most of these genes instruct how our brain circuitry is laid down in the womb, and how it functions.

  • A group of scientists now suspects part of the reason may be that megalodon ate its siblings while still in its mother’s womb.

  • So, in the new study, the team suggests that a behavior unique to this order may also play a role — a kind of cannibalism that occurs in the womb.

  • To the left is what is ostensibly a dining room, where everything is hot pink and it feels like the world’s most chaotic bubble bath, or maybe a very fun womb.

  • Complete male reproductive independence would also hinge on artificial womb technology, which also made headlines in 2014.

  • At present, not every woman is young enough, fertile enough, or healthy enough to have a baby using her own eggs or her own womb.

  • The womb may become artificial by the end of the century but it will still be the battleground for feminist politics.

  • But when the womb—the most politicized body part in history—is separated from the woman, what will it mean for feminism?

  • A report says a man-made womb could be reality within 30 years.

  • Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.

  • For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have called thee a transgressor from the womb.

  • Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?

  • As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

  • Nor is the heat the cause of the black complexion, particularly of children in the womb, who are out of the reach of the sun.