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  • noun The surgical removal of the uterine cervix.

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Examples

  • Now, however, important new studies show that removing only the cervix a procedure known as “radical trachelectomy,” or RT and leaving your uterus intact can be an optional treatment for noninvasive cervical cancer and one that also preserves fertility.

    Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000

  • I was transferred to the Royal Marsden Hospital in London and at first doctors thought I could have a trachelectomy, where the cervix is removed but the womb left intact.

    unknown title 2009

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