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my wife told me she has a "tipped" uterous. what is this exactly and what does it mean or affect?
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It doesn't necessarily mean much. Look at an anatomy chart, and you will see the uterus in the abdomen, with the wide end forward and the narrow end back, looking kind of like a diver getting ready to dive if you think of the Fallopian tubes as arms and the fimbria as hands held out behind. (It's about the size of a pear or an eggplant.) If it leans slightly to the left or right (the diver leans to the side), it gets labeled tipped or tilted. If it is placed more straight up and down rather than leaning forward (the diver stands up), it is sometimes called retroverted. Once a baby is in the uterus, it fills up and grows a lot and tipped or whatever is not really an issue. Only if for some reason the sperm cannot enter the cervix (the hole at the little end of the uterus) would there be a problem, and that would be called something else, cervical blockage or some other phrase.
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