Noun: cervix
| Singular | cervix |
| Plural | cervixes; cervices |
Sample Sentences
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I put my hands on Madeleine's hot cheeks, making a prize cup of my hands and her cervix, and tilted her head to one side. [1979, Clive Sinclair, Hearts of Gold, Penguin, published 1983, page 10:]
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Screening involves taking a small sample of cells from the cervix and looking for high-risk HPV that could develop into cancer if left untreated. [2023 January 23, Anna Bawden, The Guardian:]
Nouns inflected like cervix
ectocervix,
symmetric matrix,
rock hyrax,
triangular matrix,
bostryx,
conic section directrix,
hemothorax,
bisectrix,
Cape hyrax,
coadjutrix,
interaction matrix,
instructrix,
paracervix,
Jordan matrix,
supermatrix,
Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix,
endocervix,
prothorax,
subappendix,
co-adjutrix, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cervīx (“neck”), see below. See: Latin Nouns '
cervīx'.