单词 | metrotome |
释义 | metrotomen. Surgery. Now historical. A cutting instrument used in uterine surgery, esp. to incise the cervix; a hysterotome. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > instruments used on womb hysterotome1828 metrotome1857 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Metrotome, name given to an instrument for performing operations on the uterus. 1861 Med. Times & Gaz. June 573 Front and Profile View of Dr. Coghlan's Probe-pointed Metratome [sic]. 1885 H. M. Jones Pract. Man. Dis. Women (ed. 2) iv. 82 Greenhalgh's metrotome is shown. But I have the same objection to it as to all metrotomes constructed on a similar principle. 1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons) Index p. xxxii/1 Metrotomes. 1967 Med. Jrnl. Austral. 11 Nov. 887/1 The hysterotome, called also metrotome or uterotome, was an instrument designed to incise the cervix uteri of certain patients complaining of dysmenorrhœa and sterility. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1857 |
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