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Karkuk (sh) and Couvelaire uterus (medicine)


Karkuk (sh)




City (pop., latest est.: 419,000), northeastern Iraq.

Located north of Baghdad in the Kurdistan region, it is situated in one of the first areas in the Middle East where oil was discovered. Karkuk is a trade and export centre as well as a centre of Iraq's petroleum industry, with oil pipeline connections to Tripoli and to Yumurtal?k on the Turkish coast. The city has traditionally had a Kurdish and Turkmen majority, but in the late 20th century the Iraqi government adopted a policy of expelling Kurds and Turkmen and resettling the area with Arabs.


Couvelaire uterus (medicine)


Couvelaire uterus
Extravasation of blood into the uterine musculature and beneath the uterine peritoneum in association with severe forms of abruptio placentae.

Synonym: uteroplacental apoplexy.