Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The dissection of embryos; embryological anatomy.
- n. In obstetrics, the division of the fetus in the uterus into fragments in order to effect delivery: an operation employed, for example, when the pelvis of the mother is too narrow to admit of natural delivery.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Also, often the single lamb was dead through pressure and had to be removed by embryotomy or a Caesarean operation.”
“Doleris informed me that a woman had been confined at the Cochin Hospital five days before and that fears were entertained as to the results of an operation that had been performed, it having been necessary to do an embryotomy.”
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
“Finding it impossible to deliver her in the usual way, embryotomy was in this instance employed.”
“The operation of embryotomy was, therefore, at once performed, by cutting away the right shoulder, which enabled the operator, with the aid of his appropriate hooks, to bring the head forward, when the calf came away without further trouble, -- the whole operation not requiring fifteen minutes.”
“When this cannot be accomplished, the only resort is embryotomy, or cutting up of the _foetus_, which operation can only be safely performed by the qualified veterinary surgeon.”
“It is noteworthy that he recognized the method of embryotomy as necessary when other measures had failed.”
“On June eighteenth, M. Doléris informed me that a woman had been confined at the Cochin Hospital five days before and that fears were entertained as to the results of an operation that had been performed, it having been necessary to do an embryotomy.”
On the Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases
“` ` It is said that in difficult cases female assistants have for ages practiced version, and physicians among the Songars have performed embryotomy with the knife.”
“Some of the simplest operations in embryotomy (incision of the head in hydrocephalus, incision of the belly in dropsy) have already been described.”
“In most cases of monstrosity by excess, however, it is needful to remove the superfluous parts, in which case the general principles employed for embryotomy must be followed.”
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