Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Surgical incision of the uterus, as in a cesarean section.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, the operation of cutting into the uterus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The act of cutting into the uterus, as in Cæsarean section. See under
cæsarean .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun surgery The surgical procedure of making an
incision in theuterus , commonly combined with alaparotomy during acaesarean section .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun surgical incision into the uterus (as in cesarean section)
Etymologies
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Examples
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"One day I walked into an operating room and they did a hysterotomy, which is a cesarean section, lifted out a baby that was crying and breathing, and put it in a bucket in the corner of the room, and let it die, and pretended nobody heard it," he told the audience.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Exposure of 26-week fetus through hysterotomy revealing sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT).
Sacrococcygeal Teratoma (SCT), Sacrococcygeal Tumor Treatment 2010
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D&E/D&X are preferred over labor induction, hysterotomy and hysterectomy procedures, where they are possible, specifically because they have documented lower morbidity and mortality rates.
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Consider: in 1973 a team of Finnish and American scientists decapitated a dozen human fetuses, each aborted live through hysterotomy, and kept the heads alive artificially for study.
A Search For Limits 2008
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One of these witnesses even suggested that the gasps had come during the earlier attempts at saline infusion, and that the fetus had died at that time -- before the hysterotomy began.
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On October 3, 1973, Edelin performed a legal abortion at the request of a pregnant seventeen year-old, completing the operation by hysterotomy or mini-Cesarean, after three attempts at saline infusion failed.
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The conviction of Dr. Edelin, despite that defense, opens the possibility that any doctor maybe convicted of homicide in the death of a legally aborted fetus -- particularly in late abortions and those performed by hysterotomy, which run the risk of producing a fetus that shows at least fleeting signs of life.
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In the hysterotomy, he removed the fetus through an incision in its mother's abdomen peeling it from the wall of the womb and scooping it out along with the afterbirth.
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The subject fetuses were "derived from either hysterectomy or hysterotomy... undertaken in the interest of the health, sanity or life of the mother."
Boing Boing Mark Frauenfelder 2010
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The subject fetuses were "derived from either hysterectomy or hysterotomy... undertaken in the interest of the health, sanity or life of the mother."
Boing Boing Mark Frauenfelder 2010
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