morcellationn.

1898 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Sept. 789 Any myomatous nodules that presented in the wound were removed generally by morcellation.

1900 Lancet 12 May 1368/1 The method of performing vaginal ablation..and vaginal ablation with morcellation are all fully and clearly described.

1948 Jrnl. Ecol. 36 190 Mr T. Jones Pierce gave an outline of the structure of the pastoral and agrarian organization of medieval Wales, stressing the intense morcellation that occurred of land holding, and the widely scattered holdings of individual tenant farmers.

1949 Speculum 24 325 The morcellation of the fields was increased by hereditary law, according to which all children were entitled to the inheritance.

1950 Econ. Hist. Rev. 3 133 Similar if less complicated accidents may account for some instances of manorial morcellation in the Hundred Rolls.

1968 J. Howkins Shaw's Textbk. Operative Gynæcol. (ed. 3) xvi. 306/2 The expert at vaginal hysterectomy can convert the difficult operation into a relatively easy one..by removing the obstructing myoma by morcellation and vaginal myomectomy.

1975 E. L. Mascall in Critique ‘Eucharistic Agreement’ v. 70 Merely to state the question in this way..presupposes an artificial and perverse separation between Christ and his members, a morcellation or fragmentation of the body of Christ.

1996 European Urol. 30 490 Destroyed kidneys are generally of small size, so they can be extracted via a 10- or 12-mm cannula site without morcellation.