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HYSTERECTOMY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Surgical removal of the uterus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("hysterectomy" is a kind of...):
ablation; cutting out; excision; extirpation (surgical removal of a body part or tissue)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hysterectomy"):
panhysterectomy; radical hysterectomy (surgical removal of the uterus and the ovaries and oviducts and cervix and related lymph nodes)
total hysterectomy (surgical removal of the uterus and cervix)
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