Definition of Salpingectomy

1. Noun. Surgical removal of one or both Fallopian tubes.


Definition of Salpingectomy

1. Noun. (surgery) Surgical removal of the Fallopian tubes ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Salpingectomy

1. Surgical removal of the fallopian tubes. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salpingectomy

salp
salpa
salpae
salpas
salpian
salpians
salpicon
salpicons
salpid
salpids
salpiform
salpiglosses
salpiglossis
salping-
salpingectomies
salpingectomy (current term)
salpingemphraxis
salpinges
salpingian
salpingioma
salpingitic
salpingitides
salpingitis
salpingitis isthmica nodosa
salpingitises
salpingo-
salpingo-oophor-
salpingo-oophorectomies
salpingo-oophorectomy
salpingo-oophoritis

Literary usage of Salpingectomy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gonorrhea in Women: Its Pathology, Symptomatology, Diagnosis, and Treatment by Charles Camblos Norris (1913)
"salpingectomy. OVARIAN CONSERVATION AND SUSPENSION OF THE UTERUS As has been ... In considering the operation of salpingectomy, it is important to remember ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"Three Cases of Pregnancy Following salpingectomy.—POLAR (Amer. J'jur. Obst., October, 10, 1910) reports the case of a patient who had borne a child, ..."

3. Oxford Loose-leaf Surgery by F. F. Burghard, Allen Buckner Kanavel (1921)
"HYSTERO-salpingectomy Indications. This operation, which includes the removal of the tubes with the uterus, completely or ..."

4. Gynecology by Brooke Melancthon Anspach (1921)
"... median abdominal incision is made and the affected arcai lated by means of gauze pads. A ligature is then passed through the cl FIG. 388.—salpingectomy. ..."

5. A Textbook of Gynecology by Charles Alfred Lee Reed (1901)
"salpingectomy.—While, according to Doleris, salpingitis is not a recently discovered disease, having been described by ..."

6. Care of patients undergoing gynecologic and abdominal procedures, before by Edward Emmet Montgomery (1916)
"salpingectomy—SALPINGO-OOPHORECTOMY Instruments.—See Fig. 12. The median incision should only be employed for two reasons: First, the presence of infection ..."

7. The Surgical assistant by Walter Max Brickner (1907)
"... salpingectomy. For the removal of an ovarian cyst the assistant should prepare, in addition to the other instruments, straight and curved clamps, ..."

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