Endometriosis is a disease that my mother has had for 16 years. Knowing that I decided it would be a terrific idea to educate myself along with others who know very little about it. All the research was obtained from my mother’s books and from my mother herself.
What is Endometriosis?
The word endometriosis is a Greek word. Endo is a word meaning within, metri refers to the uterus, and osis is a suffix that means abnormal or deceased condition. Put the words together and you have "an abnormal condition within the uterus." 1.
Many women in their reproductive age, the endometrial tissue, ordinarily expelled from the body through menstruation, travels outside the uterus and sticks there. In susceptible women, these tissues impl
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