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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Uterus Normally pear-sized, the uterus grows up to five times its usual size in pregnancy.
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About 30 years ago the estrogen receptor protein was first isolated from the rat uterus .
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But my uterus had gone into a kind of blue funk and did not respond.
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Even so, Alison winced slightly, confirming their suspicion that the uterus was tender and contracted.
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If implantation of a fertilized egg does not occur, this lining breaks down and is expelled from the uterus .
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In this way the uterus is removed without touching any surfaces.
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Or Hecht could stay with the first and only method she has tried, having the doctor introduce sperm into her uterus .
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The uterus is very responsive to bass tones.