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MYOMETRIUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The smooth muscle forming the wall of the uterus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("myometrium" is a kind of...):
involuntary muscle; smooth muscle (a muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels (excluding the heart))
Holonyms ("myometrium" is a part of...):
uterus; womb (a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus)
Context examples:
A scar/healing of the myometrium that occurs after uterine injury or after non-cesarean surgery.
(Non-Cesarean Uterine Surgical Scarring, NCI Thesaurus)
When administered intramuscularly on gravid subjects, this agent induces myometrium contractions, thereby initiating luteolysis and consequently parturition.
(Carboprost, NCI Thesaurus)
It tends to invade deeply into the myometrium and spreads into the lymphatic vessels.
(Endometrial Serous Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The stromal invasion has a maximum depth of 5.00 mm and a horizontal spread of 7.00 mm or less; for endometrial cancer, it refers to cancer limited to endometrium or invades less than one-half of the myometrium.
(FIGO Stage IA, NCI Thesaurus)
For cervical cancer, it refers to invasive cancer that is clinically visible and is confined to the cervix or it is diagnosed microscopically and the stromal invasion is more than 5.00 mm and the horizontal spread is more than 7.00 mm; for endometrial cancer, it refers to cancer that is confined to the uterine body and invades one-half or more of the myometrium.
(FIGO Stage IB, NCI Thesaurus)
For cervical cancer, it refers to invasive cancer that is confined to the cervix; for endometrial cancer, it refers to cancer confined to the corpus uteri with no or less than one-half myometrial invasion (IA) or invasion of one-half or more of the myometrium (IB).
(FIGO Stage I, NCI Thesaurus)
