ovariotomy

[oh-vair-ee-ot-uh-mee]

noun

Surgery.

plural

ovariotomies 

1. incision into or removal of an ovary.

ovariotomy

/ əʊˌvɛərɪˈɒtəmɪ /

noun

1. surgical incision into an ovary Compare oophorectomy

Other Word Forms

• ovariotomist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of ovariotomy¹

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

Example Sentences

Ovariotomy saved more lives than any other surgical operation, but, taking Somerville as a basis of calculation, the ascertained results of preventive medicine had saved more lives in ten years, among thirty thousand people, than ovariotomy would save in the same time among two millions.

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The operation is termed ovariotomy.

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

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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.

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It was there that, in 1842, he first performed the operation of ovariotomy with which his name is associated.

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