hysterectomyn.
/ˌhɪstəˈrɛktəmi/, U.S. /ˌhɪstəˈrɛktəmi/ Surgery.
Surgical excision of the uterus (or upper part of the uterus); an instance of this.Also with distinguishing word, usually describing the extent of the surgery or the surgical approach; cf. vaginal hysterectomy at vaginal adj. 2b.
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female circumcision1697
nymphotomy1704
hysterotomy1707
ovariotomy1844
clitoridectomy1866
hysterectomy1872
oophorectomy1872
ovariectomy1873
clitorectomy1880
genital mutilation1884
myomotomy1884
myomectomy1886
salpingectomy1888
panhysterectomy1890
salpingo-oöphorectomy1890
trachelotomy1890
dilatation and curettage1906
vulvectomy1916
tubectomy1925
hymenectomy1931
salpingolysis1937
labiaplasty1964
scrape1968
female genital cutting1996
1872 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Dis. Women & Children 4 656 Gastro-hysterotomy and hysterectomy.—Dr. Horatio D. Storer, operator. 1869, July 21st, Boston, Massachusetts.
1887 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 29 Mar. 1/4 A hysterectomy for the removal of an abnormal growth, with the uterus and its appendages, was performed yesterday... The patient died this morning from the shock.
1908 Practitioner Dec. 788 Surgeons adopted what has been called hysterectomy with intraperitoneal treatment of the stump, or subtotal hysterectomy.
1977 M. Drabble Ice Age (1979) ii. 120 She had lain there..and had talked to him with immense animation about fibroids and hysterectomies and mastectomies and all the other gynaecological dramas of the ward.
2014 N. Gorton & H. M. Grubb in L. Erickson-Schroth Trans Bodies, Trans Selves xi. 236 Other options for trans men include a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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