英语释义
1. a muscular organ of the female mammal for containing and usually for nourishing the young during development prior to birth — called also womb
2. a structure in some lower animals analogous to the uterus in which eggs or young develop
3. the organ in women and some female animals in which babies develop before birth
4. the organ of a female mammal in which the young develop before birth
5. an organ in female mammals for containing and usually for nourishing the young during development prior to birth that consists of a greatly modified and enlarged section of an oviduct (as in rodents and marsupials) or of the two oviducts united (as in the higher primates including humans), that has thick walls consisting of an outer serous layer, a very thick middle layer of smooth muscle, and an inner mucous layer containing numerous glands, and that during pregnancy undergoes great increase in size and change in the condition of its walls — called also womb — see cervix sense 2a, corpus uteri, endometrium, fundus sense c, myometrium, perimetrium