colpohysterotomy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From colpo- + hysterotomy.
Noun
[edit]colpohysterotomy (plural colpohysterotomies)
- (surgery, obsolete) A hysterotomy carried out via the vagina.
- 1903, “Chronic Inversion of the Uterus”, in American Gynecology, page 503:
- Complete colophysterotomy with an incision from the external os to the fundus will be found necessary in the large majority of cases.