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Outside of the uterus, or womb. Extra-uterine pregnancy (Med.), a condition of pregnancy in which the fetus is not in the uterus, but in the Fallopian tube or in the abdominal cavity.

The formation of a fetus in the womb; pregnancy.

The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.

The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages. [Written also foetus.]

To cease from bearing. [Obs.] Whenas my womb her burden would forbear. Spenser.

The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body. King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown. Shak.

The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.

Having no essence or being. H. Brooke. The womb of inessential Naught. Shelley.

Within the uterus or womb; as, intrauterine hemorrhage.

The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.

The womb. All that openeth the matrix is mine. Ex. xxxiv. 19.

Inflammation of the womb.

An instrument for measuring the size of the womb. Knight.

Profuse bleeding from the womb, esp. such as does not occur at the menstrual period.

A marsupial of the genus Phascolomys; a wombat.

Having a marsupial pouch; as, the pouched badger, or the wombat.

The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth. Bouvier.

m to four quaternions of soldiers. Acts xii. 4. Ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run. Milton. The triads and quaternions with which he loaded his sentences. Sir W. Scott.

come vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb. The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. Ray. And keener lightnings quicken in her eye. Pope. When the pale and bloodless east began To quicken to the sun. Tennyson.

The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. It has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed of independent life.