How to Use uterine in a Sentence

uterine

adjective
  • When there’s no sperm to fertilize the egg, the uterine lining sheds, and voilà!
    — Julia Sullivan, SELF, 18 July 2024
  • For some uterine cancer patients, surgery isn't the best option.
    — Jenny McCoy, Health.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • During the imaging test, your provider will look at the thickness of your uterine lining.
    — Jess Sims, Health, 26 Dec. 2024
  • These compounds cause contractions in the uterus to help shed the uterine lining.
    — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Major surgery to remove uterine fibroids put her out of the game for 16 months.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • These models could be used to model healthy babies, and plan inter-uterine surgery.
    — Joe Mullin, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2012
  • Last year, Williams had surgery to remove uterine fibroids and missed most of the season.
    — Howard Fendrich, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The hemorrhage, on the other hand, was caused by uterine cancer.
    — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • There are a range of treatment approaches for uterine cancer.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Collins works like hell to get a uterine tamponade inserted to stop the bleeding.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
  • His wife had diabetes, was a uterine cancer survivor and had just one kidney.
    — Arkansas Online, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Liver cancer, melanoma and uterine cancer are also on the rise among women.
    — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • In fact, Black women have the highest rates of death for uterine cancer of any racial/ethnic group.
    — Ayana Byrd, Health.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • How might the uterine environment leave a trauma trace in the offspring?
    — Rachel Yehuda, Scientific American, 18 June 2022
  • The method would be able to catch ovarian, breast, cervical, and uterine cancer.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Kelsey Hatcher was born with two uteri, each with its own cervix — a condition known as uterine didelphys.
    — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The cause was uterine cancer, said her husband, David Petersen.
    — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The cause was uterine cancer, said her niece, Clarice Jacobson.
    — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
  • During the ultrasound, the technician sees what looks like a small bump on my uterine lining.
    — refinery29.com, 30 July 2020
  • Your ob-gyn can help rule out certain health conditions that may be at the root of it, like endometriosis or uterine fibroids.
    — Erica Sloan, SELF, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Uterine sarcoma is a rare type of uterine cancer that forms in muscle or other tissues of the uterus.
    — Jenny McCoy, Health.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • More than 90% of these cases present with abnormal uterine bleeding.
    — Dr. Chidimma J. Acholonu, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • There are possible more serious side effects, like blood clots, uterine cancer, and stroke, but these tend to be very rare.
    — Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The aim is to raise awareness around endometrial cancer, which is the most common form of uterine cancer.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 5 Apr. 2022
  • One of her uterine horns, where the fallopian tubes open into the uterus, did not fully develop.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
  • An ultrasound and a uterine biopsy came back negative.
    — Nami Mun, The Atlantic, 16 May 2026
  • These drugs block the body from producing estrogen and progesterone, which cause the uterine lining to build up.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 20 June 2023
  • This causes the uterine lining to stop thickening and to break down, detaching the embryo.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The condition means that your uterine cells grow outside of the uterus causing tissue build-up and scarring—and a lot of pain—and there is no cure.
    — Erika Owen, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Nov. 2024
  • If uterine fibroids are causing excessive bleeding—and stress—try talking with your doctor about the best ways to work through it.
    — Noel Cody, Essence, 4 Nov. 2021

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