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salpingectomy

[ sal-pin-jek-tuh-mee ]
/ ˌsæl pɪnˈdʒɛk tə mi /
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noun, plural sal·pin·gec·to·mies. Surgery.

excision of the Fallopian tube.

Nearby words

  1. salp,
  2. salpa,
  3. salpicon,
  4. salpiform,
  5. salpiglossis,
  6. salpingemphraxis,
  7. salpinges,
  8. salpingian,
  9. salpingitis,
  10. salpingitis isthmica nodosa

Origin of salpingectomy

1885–90; salping- + -ectomy
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Examples from the Web for salpingectomy

  • Salpingectomy is more serious, because the operation can not be performed so near the surface of the body.

    Applied Eugenics|Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

  • Salpingectomy is the cutting away of the whole or of a piece of the Fallopian tube (corresponds to vasectomy in the male).

    Woman|William J. Robinson

  • Vasectomy, ovariotomy and salpingectomy (with and without complete excision), castration.

    Abstracts of Papers Read at the First International Eugenics Congress|Various

  • To consider in the first place the operation of simple sterilization (vasectomy or salpingectomy).

    Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders|W. H. Triggs, Donald McGavin, Frederick Truby King, J. Sands Elliot, Ada G. Patterson, C.E. Matthews and J. Beck
British Dictionary definitions for salpingectomy

salpingectomy

/ (ˌsælpɪnˈdʒɛktəmɪ) /

noun plural -mies

surgical removal of a Fallopian tube

Word Origin for salpingectomy

C20: from salpinx + -ectomy
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Medicine definitions for salpingectomy

salpingectomy

[ săl′pĭn-jĕk′tə-mē ]

n.

Surgical removal of the fallopian tube.tubectomy
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