hyster

Historically, people thought that hysteria ( "hyster" is Greek, meaning "womb") was a condition where the uterus was revolting against sexual deprivation.

Alanat News 2008

In her letter (last Sunday) Laura Baldi refers to the letter of Francis Rogers (Dec. 3) and the need to replace the prefix "hyster" with the more accurate word "ureter."

redding.com Stories 2009

My good old Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has this to say about hyster- or hystero- comb form French or Latin, French hyster-, from Latin hyster-, from Greek, from hystera 1: womb.

Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008

My good old Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has this to say about hyster- or hystero- comb form French or Latin, French hyster-, from Latin hyster-, from Greek, from hystera 1: womb.

Womb - That from Which We Come, That to Which We Go Jan 2008

This reminds me of my long-cherished confusion of hyster–(Greek huster, womb) with histori (from historein, to inquire, & histr, learned man).

languagehat.com: GETTING RITE RIGHT. 2005

One hyster - ical seaman rushed towards Nornos Rique screaming.

Elric At The End of Time Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1984

"Blest if the place don't look just like the inside of one of them big hyster-shells that they get the pearls out of!"

Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris George Manville Fenn 1870

"But I say, sir, don't say as that hyster soup aren't good."

King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale George Manville Fenn 1870

I ended up having 9 lap surgeries for endometriosis and then when 2nd child was 6 weeks old I had a hyster.

IzzyMom Izzy 2008

I ended up having 9 lap surgeries for endometriosis and then when 2nd child was 6 weeks old I had a hyster.

IzzyMom 2008