in uteroadv.adj.

1606 Bp. W. Barlow Serm. Paules Crosse Nouember sig. D4^v His [sc. the King] case & race hath bin the same with the Prophet, being preserued in Vtero, Psal. 139.13... For no sooner was hee conceiued in the wombe, but presentlie he was hazarded.

1684 C. Goodall Hist. Acct. Proc. against Empiricks Ep. Ded. in Royal Coll. Physicians London sig. Ss^v He [sc. William Harvey] acquaints us that nothing is to be found in utero, for a considerable time after coition.

1713 W. Cheselden Anat. Humane Body iv. iii. 170 It seems highly necessary, that the Ducts thro' which the Body receives Nourishment after the Birth, shou'd be kept open by a Fluid passing that way whilst it is in Utero.

1795 W. Turnbull in Mem. Med. Soc. London 4 364 (title) A Case where Small-pox was communicated from the Mother to the Child in Utero.

1871 A. Meadows Man. Midwifery (ed. 2) iii. ii. 156 The placenta, which..still remains for awhile in utero.

1901 Lancet 20 July 133/1 Those unhappy children who are born with teeth—blighted probably by stomatitic inflammation in utero—which are teeth but in name.

1966 Lancet 24 Dec. 1403/2 Stiehm et al. conclude that raised levels of γM or γA globulins at birth are presumptive of in-utero infection.

2014 N.Y. Times Mag. 12 Oct. 46 After birth, babies prefer the foods they were exposed to in utero, a phenomenon scientists call ‘prenatal flavor learning’.