Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hysterotomy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) The operation of cutting into the uterus; hysterotomy; the Cæsarean section.
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- noun surgery The
operation of cutting into theuterus ;hysterotomy .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek womb + to cut: compare French métrotomie.
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