myometriumn.
/ˌmʌɪə(ʊ)ˈmiːtrɪəm/, U.S. /ˌmaɪoʊˈmitriəm/ Anatomy.
The smooth muscle forming the bulk of the wall of the uterus; the muscular layer of an individual uterus.
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myometrium1900
1900 W. A. N. Dorland Amer. Illustr. Med. Dict. 421/1 Myometrium, the muscular substance of the uterus.
1907 Practitioner Dec. 792 The myometrium contained many thick-walled blood-vessels.
1956 Nature 10 Mar. 478/2 Progesterone..prevents..œstrogen-induced growth of the myometrium.
1989 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 May 1210/1 Histological examination of the resected tissue showed normal endometrium with large fragments of underlying myometrium.
2002 Gynecol. Oncol. 84 431 Selected differentially expressed transcripts were used as probes on RNA blots of 20 pairs of leiomyomas and their matched myometria.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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