colpohysterotomy

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English

Etymology

From colpo- +‎ hysterotomy.

Noun

colpohysterotomy (plural colpohysterotomies)

  1. (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.