Definition of Intrauterine

1. Adjective. Within the womb.

Partainyms: Uterine

Definition of Intrauterine

1. a. Within the uterus or womb; as, intrauterine hemorrhage.

Definition of Intrauterine

1. Adjective. Located or taking place inside the uterus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Intrauterine

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Intrauterine

1. In the uterus (the womb). (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intrauterine

intratracheal tube
intratracheally
intratribal
intratropical
intratubal
intratubular
intratumor
intratumoral
intratumorally
intratumoural
intratympanic
intraunion
intraurban
intraurethral
intrauterine (current term)
intrauterine amputation
intrauterine contraceptive device
intrauterine contraceptive devices
intrauterine device expulsion
intrauterine devices
intrauterine fracture
intrauterine growth retardation
intrauterine pneumonia
intrauterine transfusion
intravacuolar
intravagal glomus

Literary usage of Intrauterine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1904)
"A CONSIDERATION OF COMBINED ECTOPIC AND intrauterine PREGNANCY, ... The ectopic and intrauterine products of conception are both living at the same time. ..."

2. The Practice of Obstetrics: Designed for the Use of Students and by James Clifton Edgar (1916)
"A fountain syringe is to be preferred for vaginal as for intrauterine injections ... For the various solutions to be used in vaginal as well as intrauterine ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1897)
"Removal of intrauterine Polypi by Section of the Anterior Uterine Wall. ... and palpation of the intrauterine growth. A semicircular incision is then made ..."

4. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technic: A Manual of Practical Procedures by Albert Sidney Morrow (1921)
"THE intrauterine DOUCHE Uterine douches are employed in the treatment of septic conditions affecting the uterus, to control hemorrhage, and for cleansing ..."

5. Gynecological Operations: Including Non-operative Treatment and Minor Gynecology by Henri Albert Charles Antoine Hartmann, Douglas William Sibbald (1913)
"intrauterine Medication. Under the generic term of intrauterine medication is included lavage of the uterus, the application of medicated bougies, ..."

6. Medical gynecology by Samuel Wyllis Bandler (1914)
"Tenaculum forceps of various forms, for grasping the cervix, holding it firmly and pulling it down while performing any intrauterine manipulation or packing ..."

7. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"Cases of long retained intrauterine pregnancies are on record and deserve as much consideration as those tliat were extrauterine. ..."

8. American Medicine (1906)
"In 26 cases both the blood culture and the intrauterine culture were made. ... In 4 cases the blood culture gave positive and the intrauterine cultures ..."

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