womb:

The organ of conception and gestation in a woman ; of a hollow, the thick-walled, muscular organ held in the pelvic cavity by flexible ligaments and supported by several muscles in which the fetus develops during pregnancy. Synonym: uterus.

QUOTES:

(1) Woody Allen: ' I have an intense desire to return to the womb; anybodys .'

(2) James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (John Hurt) speaking of the barren Scottish queen in Rob Roy
See Also: aborticide, anaclisis, anaclitism, baby box, colp-, colpo-, furor uterinus, homunculi, in utero, Jack in the box, plough, plow, wame, womb

Quotes Containing womb:
Woody Allen: ''I have an intense desire to return to the womb ; anybodys.''
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (John Hurt) speaking of the barreN Scottish queen in Rob Roy (1994): ''Aie, one might have hoped that a field so regularly plowed might have yielded one good crop . In truth I have seen healthier graveyards than that woman''s womb .''

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