hysterectomy
noun
hys·ter·ec·to·my
ˌhi-stə-ˈrek-tə-mē 
plural hysterectomies
: surgical removal of the uterus
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a surgeon who has performed many hysterectomies
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Though rarely cancerous, these growths can cause painful periods, heavy bleeding and infertility — and are the leading reason for hysterectomies, which are more common in Black women than in others.
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Linda Villarosa Robin Miles Krish Seenivasan Alec K. Redfearn, New York Times, 13 June 2024
The climate crisis has 'decimated their livelihoods' Beed has long had a reputation for an abnormally high number of hysterectomies.
—Theara Coleman, theweek, 27 Mar. 2024
Sheila Meade, 62, uses a walker after a hysterectomy.
—Jason Deparle, New York Times, 10 June 2024
In a way, the pattern of tubal ligations and hysterectomies with questionable consent is just an extreme version of something much more common: a kind of verbal sterilization, when doctors express the pernicious belief that people with sickle cell disease cannot or should not have kids.
—Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 May 2024
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Linda Villarosa Robin Miles Krish Seenivasan Alec K. Redfearn, New York Times, 13 June 2024
The climate crisis has 'decimated their livelihoods' Beed has long had a reputation for an abnormally high number of hysterectomies.
—Theara Coleman, theweek, 27 Mar. 2024
Sheila Meade, 62, uses a walker after a hysterectomy.
—Jason Deparle, New York Times, 10 June 2024
In a way, the pattern of tubal ligations and hysterectomies with questionable consent is just an extreme version of something much more common: a kind of verbal sterilization, when doctors express the pernicious belief that people with sickle cell disease cannot or should not have kids.
—Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 May 2024
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hysterectomy
noun
hys·ter·ec·to·my
ˌhis-tə-ˈrek-tə-mē
plural hysterectomies
: surgical removal of the uterus see ovariohysterectomy, panhysterectomy, radical hysterectomy, supracervical hysterectomy
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