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n. - Necklike opening to the uterus; The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body.

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  • A day or more before the surgery, a woman's cervix is dilated.
  • The part of the womb known as the cervix is the most frequently affected.
  • He found novel HPV-DNA in cervix cancer biopsies, and thus discovered the new, tumourigenic HPV16 type in 1983.
  • So we wait for the defense (aka cervix) to make a mistake.
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