Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, the operation of uniting the walls of the vagina when ruptured. Also called
elytrorrhaphy .
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- noun surgery
suturing of a defect in the wall of thevagina
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It was Guérineau who amputated a thigh; and, later, Tillaux performed with hypnosis a serious operation of colporrhaphy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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