obsolete medical term female hysteria wondering womb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_womb https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7967225 The pseudoscientific belief that a displaced uterus was the cause of many medical pathologies in women. The belief originates in the medical texts of ancient Greece, although it persisted in European academic medicine and popular thought for centuries. The wandering womb as a concept was popularized by doctor Edward Jorden, who published The Suffocation of the Mother in 1603. wondering uterus The Complete Dictionary of Sexology