hysterectomy

English

Etymology

From hyster- +‎ -ectomy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪstəˈɹɛktəmi/
• Rhymes: -ɛktəmi

• Audio (US):

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Noun

hysterectomy (plural hysterectomies)

1. (surgery) The surgical procedure to remove all of or part of the uterus.
   • 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 140:

     she even contemplated having her womb taken out to eliminate periods altogether, which would surely be her greatest possible career move, a tactical hysterectomy for ambitious women with menstruation problems

Derived terms

• abdominohysterectomy
• celiohysterectomy
• colpohysterectomy
• hemihysterectomy
• hysterectomise
• hysterectomize
• ovariohysterectomy
• panhysterectomy
• radical hysterectomy
• supracervical hysterectomy

Translations

surgical removal of the uterus or part thereof

• Catalan: histerectomia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 子宮切除術 / 子宫切除术 (zǐgōng qiēchúshù)

• Czech: hysterektomie f
• Dutch: baarmoederverwijdering; hysterectomie (nl)
• Finnish: kohdunpoisto (fi)
• French: hystérectomie (fr) f
• German: Gebärmutterentfernung f; (chiefly specialist) Hysterektomie (de) f
• Greek: υστερεκτομή (el) f (ysterektomí)
• Icelandic: legnám n
• Italian: isterectomia (it)
• Japanese: 子宮摘出術 (shikyūtekishutsu)
• Korean: 자군 절제 (jagun jeolje)
• Polish: histerektomia (pl) f
• Portuguese: histerectomia (pt) f
• Russian: гистерэктоми́я (ru) f (gisterɛktomíja)
• Spanish: histerectomía (es) f
• Swedish: hysterektomi (sv) c
• Tagalog: alisbahay-bata