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Surgical removal of the uterus
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hysterectomy
Word definitions for hysterectomy in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A hysterectomy is a major operation with a long recovery period. ▪ A limitation of this study is that we had no information on the type of hysterectomy - abdominal or vaginal. ▪ I then had to have a hysterectomy . ▪ Its members ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context surgery English) The surgical procedure to remove all of or part of the uterus.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. surgical removal of the uterus
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hysterectomy (from Greek ὑστέρα, hystera , "uterus" + ἐκτομή, ektomḗ , "a cutting out of") is the surgical removal of the uterus . It may also involve removal of the cervix, ovaries, fallopian tubes and other surrounding structures. Usually performed by ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1886, coined in English from Greek hystera "womb" (see uterus ) + -ectomy .
Usage examples of hysterectomy.
I guess the doctor botched the delivery, and she had to have an emergency hysterectomy.
Recently a hysterectomy patient-an obese woman who had developed a big pus pocket at the bottom of her incision, right above the pubic area-was tranfferred from the gynie floor.
Menstruation after hysterectomy and ovariotomy has been attributed to the incomplete removal of the organs in question, yet upon postmortem examination of some cases no vestige of the functional organs in question has been found.
Then she asked Cheryl to check if Marsha Schulman had had a cholecystectomy and a hysterectomy.
She had really bad endometriosis, and about a year ago finally had a hysterectomy.
Couvelaire uterus with tubes and ovaries was removed by supracervical hysterectomy.
On the floors above Delivery, in flowerless rooms, women lay recovering from hysterectomies and mastectomies.
She looked like a forty-two year old woman who had gone through four pregnancies, three miscarriages, and a hysterectomy, and had come out on the other side.
He had stood by her through all the miscarriages and the hysterectomy and now it was his turn.
I only signed a consent for a biopsy and not anything more extensive like a hysterectomy.
Secondary complications had occurred to him, possibly adhesions, but not hysterectomy.
She loved kids and loved having kids and wouldn't think of localized birth control, and even if they'd forced a hysterectomy on her, it would regenerate in a matter of weeks.
She loved kids and loved having kids and wouldn't think of localized birth control, and even if they'd forced a hysterectomy on her, it would regener.
Five years later, more tumors had necessitated a radical hysterectomy.
To which medical science adds a number of prefixes: appendectomy tonsillectomy mastectomy tubectomy vasectomy testectomy hysterectomy.