How to Use endometrium in a Sentence

endometrium

noun
  • The endometrium is the tissue that lines the inside of the uterus.
    — Kasandra Brabaw, Health, 19 June 2024
  • No one knows for certain how or why endometrial cells show up outside the endometrium.
    — Jena Pincott, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
  • The inside of the uterus is lined with the endometrium that grows and develops each month in preparation for pregnancy.
    — Andrea L. Braden, Verywell Health, 14 Feb. 2025
  • During menstruation, the inner membrane of the uterus (known as the endometrium) is shed.
    — Holly Eagleson, Parents, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The endometrium, which lines the uterus and is shed during menstruation, has also been linked to the immune system.
    — Knvul Sheikh, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2022
  • Doctors discovered Fatu had major changes in her endometrium, the inner layer of her uterus.
    — Sheeka Sanahori, USA TODAY, 22 July 2019
  • As women age, the endometrium tends to thin, and the rate of IVF failure increases.
    — Kate Morgan, The Cut, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Endometriosis happens when fragments of the endometrium (the lining of the uterus) develop in places other than the uterus.
    — Serena Coady, SELF, 4 Mar. 2022
  • By the third day of your cycle, levels of progesterone and estrogen are rising and working to rebuild your endometrium.
    — Holly Eagleson, Parents, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The imaging can show how thick the endometrium (lining of the uterus) is and whether there are cysts, uterine or ovarian tumors, or anything else of concern.
    — Sarah Bence, Health, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Endometrial cancer, which Moore had, takes root in the layer of cells that forms the lining of the uterus, also known as the endometrium.
    — Erika Stallings, SELF, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The most common form of uterine cancer is endometrial cancer, which starts in the endometrium (the inner lining of the uterus).
    — Katherine Hobson, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
  • They are used to treat a wide range of advanced malignancies, including melanomas and cancers of the lung, breast, colon, bladder, thyroid and endometrium.
    — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Altering the endometrium has not been proven to interfere with implantation.
    — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
  • During menses, low estrogen and progesterone levels help shed the uterine lining (endometrium).
    — Carley Millhone, Health, 13 Dec. 2024
  • It was associated with more than a third of deaths from cancer of the endometrium, gallbladder, esophagus, liver and kidney, the new study found.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 11 July 2024
  • Endometriosis Endometriosis is a condition where cells similar to the ones that line the inside of the uterus—the endometrium—grow outside the uterus.
    — Samantha Lauriello, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Adding to the complexity are clues that the endometrium has a microbiome, which also becomes disordered in endometriosis.
    — Jena Pincott, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
  • During this time, the endometrium will build up, becoming thicker and changing its physiological structure to be just right for an embryo.
    — Rachel Gurevich, Parents, 25 July 2024
  • The system comprises mouse ovarian cells (which produce the same hormones as human ovaries), along with human cells from the fallopian tube, endometrium and cervix.
    — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
  • The system comprises mouse ovarian cells (which produce the same hormones as human ovaries), along with human cells from the fallopian tube, endometrium and cervix.
    — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
  • The muscular uterine wall — the myometrium, where cramps take place — is lined with the endometrium, which thickens during the cycle and then is shed during menstruation.
    — Perri Klass, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Endometriosis is a painful condition involving the growth of tissue similar to the endometrium — the inner lining of the uterus — in other places inside the body.
    — Sylvia Kohn-Levitt, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
  • At this point the general medical consensus is that endometriosis happens when the tissue that lines your uterus (endometrium) begins to grow on other organs.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 6 Oct. 2021
  • At this point, the general medical consensus is that endometriosis happens when the tissue that lines your uterus (endometrium) begins to grow on other organs.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Lowering levels of progesterone will eventually signal the endometrium to break down and expel itself.
    — Rachel Gurevich, Parents, 25 July 2024
  • Endometriosis occurs when tissue similar to the inner lining of the uterus, also known as the endometrium, is found outside its normal location, where the tissue should not be.
    — Jennifer "jay" Palumbo, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • The menstrual cycle is the monthly series of changes a body goes through, in the ovaries and the lining of the uterus (endometrium), in preparation for the possibility of pregnancy.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Each chip contained different tissues—ovary tissues from mice and human fallopian tube tisues, uterine lining (endometrium), liver and cervix tissue.
    — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 28 Mar. 2017
  • More recently, doctors have argued that the tissue is made up of something similar in nature to the endometrium, but genetically different.
    — Abby Haglage, SELF, 25 Oct. 2017

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