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tubectomy

American  
[too-bek-tuh-mee, tyoo-] / tuˈbɛk tə mi, tju- /

noun

Surgery.
  • tubectomies
    plural
  1. salpingectomy.


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Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of tubectomy

First recorded in 1920–25; tube + -ectomy


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Those who agree to a tubectomy get about $8.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023

In 2011-12 alone, the government said 4.6 million women had undergone a tubectomy.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2014

Health workers, who convinced a woman to undergo a tubectomy, are also sometimes rewarded.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2014

The tubectomy operations were carried out on 83 women in just six hours.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2014

Analogy is the difference between tubectomy and bilateral oophorectomy.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2011

They asked women to have tubectomies and men to have vasectomies, offering incentives like sacks of flour for wives and exemptions from army reserve training for husbands.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2015

Paying people a cash incentive for sterilisation is against the law in many countries, but in India, state governments continue to legally pay some to undergo vasectomies and tubectomies.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2014

State governments regularly organise mass sterilisation camps where doctors perform serial tubectomies on dozens of women from poor families.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2014

The government is pushing birth control programs: 6 million people underwent vasectomies or tubectomies in six months last year.

From Time Magazine Archive

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