hysterocleisis

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Noun

hysterocleisis (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, dated, rare) The surgical closure of the uterus by suturing the edges of the os.
    • 1893, The Monthly Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine:
      Eight cases were operated on (including his own) by hysterocleisis, kolpocleisis, or nephrectomy.
    • 1904, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, page 725:
      As to the gynecological teaching, there is much that might be criticised, as, for instance, the recommendation of Hegar's perineorrhaphy, the including of hysterocleisis, and colpocleisis and the vaginal fixation of the uterus.
    • 1913, Henri Albert Charles Antoine Hartmann, Gynecological operations, page 515:
      Indirect obliteration is very simply obtained by denuding and then suturing the lips of the cervix (hysterocleisis).