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The uterus (from Latin uterus, pl.: uteri or uteruses) or womb (/ w uː m /) is the organ in the reproductive system of most female mammals, including humans, that accommodates the embryonic and fetal development of one or more fertilized eggs until birth. [1]
Wombs (stylized as WOMBS) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yumiko Shirai. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Monthly Ikki from April 2009 to October 2010, and later directly published via tankōbon volumes, with the fifth and last one released in January 2016. In 2016, Wombs won the Grand Prize of the 37th Nihon SF Taisho Award.
Figure from a 2017 Nature Communications paper describing an extra-uterine life support system, or "biobag", used to grow lamb fetuses. [1]An artificial womb or artificial uterus is a device that would allow for extracorporeal pregnancy, [2] by growing a fetus outside the body of an organism that would normally carry the fetus to term. [3]
The film begins on a beach during a foggy day. A woman is meditating while she is having tea on the porch of her house.She is in an advanced state of pregnancy. She knows that the father of her child will not return, but she thinks that perhaps her unborn child was the only thing she needed from him.
A number of twin gestations have occurred where each uterus carried its pregnancy separately. There have only been about 100 cases worldwide of a woman with a double uterus being pregnant in both wombs at the same time. [6] Prior to 2005 only 11 cases had been reported worldwide. [7]
Free womb laws (Spanish: Libertad de vientres, Portuguese: Lei do Ventre Livre), also referred to as free birth or the law of wombs, was a 19th century judicial concept in several Latin American countries, that declared that all wombs bore free children. All children are born free, even if the mother is enslaved.
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The belief in the "wandering womb" was found in ancient Greece. Some scholars have argued that it originated in Egypt, but this has now been disproved. [2] One description of the theory of a "wandering womb" comes from Aretaeus, a physician from Cappadocia, who was a contemporary of Galen in the 2nd century AD.