By the late 1970s, Foster stopped doing the procedures as medical opinion began to discourage removing healthy uteri from mentally retarded women, according to the senior administration official.
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Marsupials have two uteri, each of which connect to a lateral vagina and which both use a third, middle " vagina " which functions as the birth canal.
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Two uteri usually form initially in a female and usually male fetus, and in placental mammals they may partially or completely fuse into a single uterus depending on the species.
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After mating, female hamsters typically have larger uteri, ovaries, and adrenal glands compared to females which live alone, with other females or those that have not mated.
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The width of the uterus in the middle is 19.5 mm wide; the other uteri only about 16 mm whilst the length if the crossarm is 32 mm.
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Using a genetically identical group of mouse embryos from the autoimmune strain, they transplanted one-third into the uteri of mothers from a strain that was unaffected by the disease.
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However, the anatomy of the area surrounding a fetus is different in tissue and is lodged along one of two long uteri instead of the single uterus found in a human female.
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Their ovaries and uteri grew larger; their reproductive tracts opened; their levels of sex hormones soared; and, most persuasively, they began copulating and bearing young at an earlier age than the saline-treated mice.
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"' Reed s syndrome "'( or "'familial leiomyomatosis cutis et uteri "') is a rare inherited condition characterised by multiple cutaneous leiomyomas and, in women, autosomal dominant.
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The editorial also took issue with the Utah researchers'speculation that the problems seen in the offspring of the Utah mothers might be caused by immature uteri that had not yet developed adequate blood supplies for fetuses or the growing bodies of girls competing with their fetuses for nutrients.
