physometran.
/ˌfʌɪsəʊˈmiːtrə/, U.S. /ˌfaɪsoʊˈmitrə/, /ˌfaɪzoʊˈmitrə/ Medicine. Now rare.
Distention of the uterus with gas or air; the presence of gas or air in the uterus; esp. gas gangrene of the uterus.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > reproductive organ disorders > [noun] > of female > disorders of womb
fallinga1400
retroversion1771
physometra1772
hysteritis1781
anteversion1790
metritis1807
anteflexion1833
uteritisa1836
antroversion1840
metroperitonitis1845
metrophlebitis1845
hydatidiform mole1859
retroflexion1860
parametritis1869
perimetritis1869
cervicitis1889
mesometritis1890
adenomyoma1913
breakthrough bleeding1950
1772 D. MacBride Methodical Introd. Theory & Pract. Physic 201 Physometra.—Flatulent distension of the uterus.
1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. II Physometra, a tympany of the uterus.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 434 Emphysema uteri. Inflation of the Womb... This is the physometra of Sauvages and later nosologists.
1856 G. H. G. Jahr Homoeopathic Treat. Dis. of Females & Infants 218 The diagnosis of physometra is readily obtained; the elasticity of the tumor and its resonance when percussed, will remove all doubt as soon as we have become satisfied that the womb and not the intestines are the seat of the affection.
1875 C. H. Jones & E. H. Sieveking Man. Pathol. Anat. (ed. 2) 759 Physometra is sometimes observed after severe labours.
1905 Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. 16 136/1 The isolation of B. aerogenes capsulatus from a case of physometra.
1929 Lancet 23 Mar. 607/1 Cases of gas-gangrene of the uterus are occasionally described under the name of physometra.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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