ovariotomy

American  

[oh-vair-ee-ot-uh-mee] / oʊˌvɛər iˈɒt ə mi /

noun

Surgery.

plural

ovariotomies

1. incision into or removal of an ovary.

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ovariotomy British  

/ əʊˌvɛərɪˈɒtəmɪ /

noun

1. surgical incision into an ovary Compare oophorectomy

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Other Word Forms

• ovariotomist noun

Etymology

Origin of ovariotomy

1835–45; < New Latin ōvāriotomia, equivalent to ōvāri ( um ) ovary + -o- -o- + -tomia -tomy

Example Sentences

Lacking anesthesia, Jane Crawford kept up her courage by repeating the Psalms while Dr. McDowell made surgical history with the first ovariotomy � and removed a 15-lh. ovarian cyst.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 25 days the first woman ever to undergo an ovariotomy was "perfectly well."

From Time Magazine Archive

Artificial serum seems to have been first employed by Edmund R. Peaslee as a benign application to the peritonaeum in the operation of ovariotomy.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents by Lord, John

An ovariotomy in 1883 is a very different business, varying in certain important particulars.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph

Operations in the Young and Old.—It might be of interest to mention that such a major operation as ovariotomy has been successfully performed in an infant.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)