It was not without danger, and Ovid says, "Saepe suos utero quae necit ipsa perit.
Watson reports two cases in which a child in utero had small-pox.
The poor "Elephant-man" firmly believed his peculiarity was due to the fact that his mother while carrying him in utero was knocked down at the circus by an elephant.
McLean describes a case in which he positively states that a child cried lustily in utero during application of the forceps.
Part of these wounds were cicatrized and part still granulating, which shows that the process of reparation is as active in utero as elsewhere.
Buchanan describes a case illustrative of the etiology of spontaneous amputation of limbs in utero Nebinger reports a case of abortion, showing commencing amputation of the left thigh from being encircled by the funis.
It has been reported inutero by Guyot, and was seen to extend up to the thigh, a statement that is most likely fallacious.
There has been much discussion on the effects on the fetus in utero of medicine administered to the pregnant mother, and the opinions as to the reliability of this medication are so varied that we are in doubt as to a satisfactory conclusion.
He said, "Postquam consummati sunt dies octo ut circumcideretur puer, vocatum est nomen ejus Jesus, quod vocatum est ab angelo, priusquam in utero conciperetur.
The old idea that the latter was directly infected in utero from the semen of the father is altogether without foundation.
All are familiar with the (no doubt often quite imaginary) accounts of the effect on infants in utero of powerful sensory or mental impressions upon the mother during gestation.
One day she complained that the movements of her child in utero had entirely changed.
It may first be mentioned that pre-natal vaccination has been advocated by some authors; that is to say, the vaccinal infection of the foetus in utero by vaccinating the mother during gestation.
In utero duodecim dentes formantur in malis, et totidem in maxilla (in the uterus are formed twelve teeth in the upper jaw and as many in the lower).
I believe no one ever found a foetus in utero without a corpus luteum in the ovary; and that the truth of Haller's carollary, 'nullus unquam conceptus est absque corpore luteo' remains undisputed.
The natural position of the foetus in utero is admirably adapted for its safe passage through the pelvis under these circumstances, and is what we ought to maintain, as far as possible, during labour.
Pliny gives another etymology of the name of Caesar: "Primusque Caesarum a caeso matris utero dictus, qua de causa et Caesones appellati.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "utero" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
