colpohysterotomy

noun

A hysterotomy carried out via the vagina.

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Meanings

nouncolpohysterotomy (plural colpohysterotomies)

plural colpohysterotomies

  1. obsoletemedicineA hysterotomy carried out via the vagina.

    Complete colophysterotomy with an incision from the external os to the fundus will be found necessary in the large majority of cases.

    1903, “Chronic Inversion of the Uterus”, in American Gynecology, page 503

Origin

From colpo- + hysterotomy.

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