Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dissection of embryos; embryological anatomy.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.
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- noun medicine The act of
cutting afoetus into pieces within thewomb , so that it can be removed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Also, often the single lamb was dead through pressure and had to be removed by embryotomy or a Caesarean operation.
Every living thing Herriot, James 1992
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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) Various
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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.
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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.
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It is noteworthy that he recognized the method of embryotomy as necessary when other measures had failed.
Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine James Sands Elliott
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Finding it impossible to deliver her in the usual way, embryotomy was in this instance employed.
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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 1909
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` ` 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.
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Some of the simplest operations in embryotomy (incision of the head in hydrocephalus, incision of the belly in dropsy) have already been described.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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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.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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