hysterectomy
noun
hys·ter·ec·to·my
ˌhi-stə-ˈrek-tə-mē 
plural hysterectomies
: surgical removal of the uterus
Examples of hysterectomy in a Sentence
a surgeon who has performed many hysterectomies
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At the same time, Dunham was also grappling with an addiction to prescription drugs and with several illnesses, including endometriosis, which led her to have a hysterectomy at just thirty-one, and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, or EDS, a connective-tissue disorder.
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Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
Entertainment & Arts Olivia Munn has two viable embryos after hysterectomy and removal of ovaries
May 13, 2024
Kettmann, from the Sacramento area, said their surrogate is 22 weeks pregnant.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
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.
—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
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Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
Entertainment & Arts Olivia Munn has two viable embryos after hysterectomy and removal of ovaries
May 13, 2024
Kettmann, from the Sacramento area, said their surrogate is 22 weeks pregnant.
—Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
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.
—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
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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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