• doctorspike@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Retrograde menstruation.

    Because the feliciano tubes aren’t closed on the ends, where they interact with the ovaries, blood from a period can flow backwards into your abdominal cavity.

    Additionally, a small amount of sperm (if a woman is sexually active and say trying for a baby) can also go the full way and leak into the abdominal cavity.

    So some women can have blood and semen free floating in their abdominal cavity. Between organs