hysterectomy
noun
hys·ter·ec·to·my
ˌhi-stə-ˈrek-tə-mē 
plural hysterectomies
: surgical removal of the uterus
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a surgeon who has performed many hysterectomies
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Bill was a real-estate agent and Mary a physician assistant who’d had a hysterectomy as a result of cervical cancer.
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Barbara Demick, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
Communicate With Your Partner: Your feelings about the change in your body, your healing incisions, and having a hysterectomy can be positively influenced by support from your partner.
—Kameelah Phillips, Flow Space, 13 May 2025
For people who don’t get their periods for other reasons — due to using a hormone IUD or having had a hysterectomy — Gunter said doctors go by symptoms other than bleeding, for example hot flashes.
—Andrea Kane, CNN Money, 13 May 2025
While the only cure for adenomyosis is a hysterectomy, a surgery that removes the uterus, Bridger has found a tremendous amount of relief through alternative treatments like herbal medications.
—Alice Oglethorpe, SELF, 9 May 2025
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Barbara Demick, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
Communicate With Your Partner: Your feelings about the change in your body, your healing incisions, and having a hysterectomy can be positively influenced by support from your partner.
—Kameelah Phillips, Flow Space, 13 May 2025
For people who don’t get their periods for other reasons — due to using a hormone IUD or having had a hysterectomy — Gunter said doctors go by symptoms other than bleeding, for example hot flashes.
—Andrea Kane, CNN Money, 13 May 2025
While the only cure for adenomyosis is a hysterectomy, a surgery that removes the uterus, Bridger has found a tremendous amount of relief through alternative treatments like herbal medications.
—Alice Oglethorpe, SELF, 9 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for hysterectomy
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“Hysterectomy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hysterectomy. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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hysterectomy
noun
hys·ter·ec·to·my
ˌhis-tə-ˈrek-tə-mē
plural hysterectomies
: surgical removal of the uterus see ovariohysterectomy, panhysterectomy, radical hysterectomy, supracervical hysterectomy
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