hysterotomy

1. 1.

   surgical incision into the uterus (as in cesarean section)

   Broaderoperation

   Part ofcesarean delivery

Other forms of hysterotomy

plural

hysterotomies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hysterotomy

What does hysterotomy mean?

hysterotomy means "surgical incision into the uterus (as in cesarean section)".

How many syllables are in hysterotomy?

hysterotomy has 5 syllables: hy-ste-ro-to-my. The stress falls on "ro".

Is hysterotomy a common word?

hysterotomy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.