Uterus | uterine corpus
Femalesexorganinmammals"Hystera"and"Uterine"redirecthere.Forthestateofmind,seeHysteria.Forsiblingswiththesamemotherbutdifferentfathers,seeUterinesiblings.DifferentregionsofUterusdisplayed&labelledusinga3DmedicalanimationstillshotTheuterus(fromLatin"uterus",pluraluteri)orwomb()isamajorfemalehormone-responsivesecondarysexorganofthereproductivesysteminhumansandmostothermammals.Inthehuman,thelowerendoftheuterus,thecervix,opensintothevagina,whiletheupperend,thefundus,isconnectedtothefallopian...
Female sex organ in mammals
"Hystera" and "Uterine" redirect here. For the state of mind, see Hysteria. For siblings with the same mother but different fathers, see Uterine siblings. Different regions of Uterus displayed & labelled using a 3D medical animation still shotThe uterus (from Latin "uterus", plural uteri) or womb () is a major female hormone-responsive secondary sex organ of the reproductive system in humans and most other mammals. In the human, the lower end of the uterus, the cervix, opens into the vagina, while the upper end, the fundus, is connected to the fallopian tubes. It is within the uterus that the fetus develops during gestation. In the human embryo, the uterus develops from the paramesonephric ducts which fuse into the single organ known as a simplex uterus. The uterus has different forms in many other animals and in some it exists as two separate uteri known as a duplex uterus.
In medicine, and related professions the term uterus is con...