The MUTO looks like a spider-pterodactyl with a face like one of the eagles atop New York's Chrysler Building, and there's more than one of them – one has what looks like a womb full of glowing eggs, or possibly a huge scrotum fill of glowing sperm.
Think of it as a warm, glowing womb, only full of alcohol rather than amniotic fluid.
So, she is most likely to be having her hysterectomy because her womb is full of large, painful fibroids which are non-cancerous lumps in the muscle of the womb, or because the womb has prolapsed and is trailing southwards.
In the book, having bought his bar of lemon scented soap – still sold by the shop in Dublin now occupying the pharmacy Joyce knew – Bloom envisages the joy of the Turkish bath house which was once an exotic feature of Dublin life: "He foresaw his pale body reclined in it at full, naked, in a womb of warmth, oiled by scented melting soap, softly laved.
She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth (Rev. 12)." Interestingly, nine months is the time of full gestation in the womb.
Raised from a watery chamber resembling a womb, Henry, a full-grown man, looks out on the world as if for the first time.
One reason is that a female foetus that is growing in the womb already carries its full complement of eggs.
After funding was withdrawn from the project, the fertility doctors decided to go full steam ahead with their mechanical womb with a view.
Other studies have found that epigenetic effects occur not just in the womb, but over the full course of a human life span.
It was even possible to create a false-pregnancy storage device, with a padded hollow belly that could contain stolen goods rather than a fetus — a contrivance that brought the womb-causing-theft hypothesis full circle.
