Etymology fact! "Womb" comes from the Middle English word, "wombe", meaning stomach, specifically for the digestion stomach.
This is, we hope we don't need to tell you, in a different place to the uterus, and the opposite of what a uterus does.
Etymology fact! "Womb" comes from the Middle English word, "wombe", meaning stomach, specifically for the digestion stomach.
This is, we hope we don't need to tell you, in a different place to the uterus, and the opposite of what a uterus does.
Corollary to the above: if you're a butterfly, it actually kind of *does* work that way, but if you're reading this and you're a butterfly, please stop doomscrolling and get pollinating!
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