Sentences with phrase «uterine horns»

But other than the effects of uterine horn position that I discussed earlier, the whole litter, not just one, will be small.

Ten to fifteen injected blastocysts were transferred to each uterine horn of 2.5 dpc pseudo-pregnant ICR females.

For you who don't know what is spaying, it is a surgical removal of a female cat's internal reproductive structures and this includes its ovaries or the place where egg cells are produced, Fallopian tubes, uterine horns or the two long tubes where a kitten soon to be develop and grow, and a small part of its uterine body or small parts of uterus which is merged with uterine horns and become one body.

The eggs are fertilized in the oviduct, and then make their way to the uterus via the uterine horn, implanting in the uterine lining within 10 to 12 days.

The uterine horn is traced into the body cavity until the ovary is found.

A special instrument called a spay hook is sometimes utilized to gently pull one of the uterine horns through the abdominal incision.

The fetuses are usually evenly spaced throughout the two uterine horns.

(Human multiple - birth pregnancies are different because normal implantation in us is in the uterine body, not the uterine horns - but even there, various environmental factors influence multiple birth baby size.

Almost 80 % of the time, after one puppy (or kitten) is squeezed out of one of the uterine horns, the next offspring will be expelled from the mother's other uterine horn.

Like the effects of position in the womb, no one I know of has studied this effect in dogs or cats, but it has been confirmed in rodents, pigs and rabbits (ref1, ref2, ref3) There are probably other potential undescribed variations and defects in a mother's uterine horns that might not allow a fetus to grow to its intrinsic potential that are still unknown.

An x-ray or ultrasound may be used to identify the skeletal structures of the fetuses if they are palpable within the uterine horns.