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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Sheila Meade, 62, uses a walker after a hysterectomy.
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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
Among those that migrated, over half of women, 55%, had undergone a hysterectomy.
—Theara Coleman, theweek, 27 Mar. 2024
The Brutality of Sugar: A Times investigation into the sugar-cane industry in the Indian state of Maharashtra found workers ensnared by debt and pushed into child marriages and unnecessary hysterectomies.
—Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 28 May 2024
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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
Among those that migrated, over half of women, 55%, had undergone a hysterectomy.
—Theara Coleman, theweek, 27 Mar. 2024
The Brutality of Sugar: A Times investigation into the sugar-cane industry in the Indian state of Maharashtra found workers ensnared by debt and pushed into child marriages and unnecessary hysterectomies.
—Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 28 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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