Today we are talking about a couple of things, first of all the #uterus or #womb in Spanish #útero or #matriz an inverted pear-shaped muscular organ of the female reproductive system, located between the bladder and the rectum. The uterus grows during puberty and shrinks after menopause. But as a rule of thumb we say that your uterus is the size of your fist. In Spanish the synonym “matriz” in English now archaic (for this particular) “Matrix” comes from the Latin for Mater-Mother Matrix -Breeding female and in late Middle English Matrix-Uterus And now

#WordOfTheDay #lithotomy in Spanish #litotomía or as I prefer to call it “the most absurd position to give birth in” Lithotomy is referred to this position. And although now I’m every picture and movie is generally understood as a position of birth. It is relatively modern and now questioned by people like me. But hey there is a man in the picture and not a birthing woman.

One common misconception around obstetrical terms is with the word #caesarean as in Caesarean section or C-section in Spanish “cesárea”. Because most people assume it comes from, obviously And yes it does come from Caesar but not in the way it is generally thought, which is that it’s called that way because that is how he was born.But historically that will not make sense. At that time that kind of surgery was practiced but still not as well as it is done nowadays