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Medical milestone1 tonight making world headlines, the first woman ever to have a successful uterus transplant is now pregnant, doctors are being cautious but they are encouraged tonight, and here is ABC's Lama H.
22 year old Derya Sert is something of medical miracle, born without womb, a rare condition, she is the first woman ever to undergo a successful uterus transplant which she received from a deceased donor2 in August 2011, in the stunning3 announcement doctors now revealing she is almost 2 weeks pregnant, she says she is looking forward to having the baby, remarkably4 her ovaries were healthy and she produced eggs which doctors harvested before the uterus transplant, they then put the fertilized5 embryo6 into her new womb.
While this is nothing short of a miracle, her doctor says she still faces a high risk of miscarriage7 and other complications in the early stages of pregnancy8, but the experiment is giving thousands of childless women hope of conceiving.
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1 milestone | |
n.里程碑;划时代的事件 | |
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2 donor | |
n.捐献者;赠送人;(组织、器官等的)供体 | |
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3 stunning | |
adj.极好的;使人晕倒的 | |
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4 remarkably | |
ad.不同寻常地,相当地 | |
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5 Fertilized | |
v.施肥( fertilize的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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6 embryo | |
n.胚胎,萌芽的事物 | |
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7 miscarriage | |
n.失败,未达到预期的结果;流产 | |
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8 pregnancy | |
n.怀孕,怀孕期 | |
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