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historectomy

historectomy is the misspelling of hysterectomy.

Meaning of hysterectomy

Noun

hysterectomy (plural hysterectomies)

  1. The surgical procedure to remove all of or part of the uterus.
    • she even contemplated having her womb taken out to eliminate periods altogether, which would surely be her greatest possible career move, a tactical hysterectomy for ambitious women with menstruation problems2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 140

Questions about historectomy

What is historectomy the misspelling of?
Historectomy is the misspelling of hysterectomy.

Words near historectomy in the dictionary

  1. histoprocessors
  2. histoprognostic
  3. histoquantification
  4. histoquantitative
  5. historadiography
  6. historectomy
  7. historesin
  8. historesins
  9. historial
  10. historials
  11. historian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: historectomy (page history and authors); hysterectomy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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