radical hysterectomy

1. 1.

   surgical removal of the uterus and the ovaries and oviducts and cervix and related lymph nodes

   Synonymspanhysterectomy

   Broaderhysterectomy

Questions about radical hysterectomy

What does radical hysterectomy mean?

radical hysterectomy means "surgical removal of the uterus and the ovaries and oviducts and cervix and related lymph nodes".

What is another word for radical hysterectomy?

Close synonyms include panhysterectomy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is radical hysterectomy a common word?

radical hysterectomy 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.