Definitions for cervix

cervix cer·vix

Spelling: [sur-viks]
IPA: /ˈsɜr vɪks/

Cervix is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in cervix (ceirvx).

Definitions for cervix

noun

  1. the neck, especially the back part.
  2. any necklike part, especially the constricted lower end of the uterus.

Origin of cervix

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin cervīx neck, nape, uterine cervix

Examples for cervix

The patient had been under our care for inflammation of the cervix uteri.

She had to remove part of her cervix because her strain of HPV proved to be one of the more serious ones.

The cervix is then more or less dilated and the ovum is palpable.

[Y]ou will know you have it right when you crush down on the clamp and see white gelatinous material coming through the cervix.

Conrad was at the ob-gyn to check to see if, as the Maryland resident likes to put it, “My cervix is trying to kill me.”

Cancer of the cervix also seldom appears—once in about 2000 cases.

She described how her own pregnancy had gone wrong at 17 weeks, when the fetus moved into her cervix.

HPV led to early cervical cancer and the subsequent removal of nearly half her cervix.

If there be any suspicion in this direction he should remove the cervix.

On my urgent representations she allowed me to remove the cervix.

Word Value for cervix
Scrable

18

Words with friends

20

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