gastroelytrotomy
English
Etymology
gastro- + elytrotomy
Noun
gastroelytrotomy (uncountable)
- (surgery) The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of removing a foetus.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gastroelytrotomy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)