From episio- + -tomy (“surgical incision”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσιον (epísion, “pubic region”) + τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”)).
episiotomy (plural episiotomies)
- (medicine) A surgical incision through the perineum made to enlarge the vagina and assist childbirth.
2011, Caitlin Moran, How to be a Woman:The following eight hours were the worst of my life that haven't ended in an episiotomy.
surgical incision
- Arabic: بضع الفرج
- Armenian: էպիզիոտոմիա (ēpiziotomia), պերինեոտոմիա (hy) (perineotomia), շեքահատում (šekʻahatum)
- Catalan: episiotomia f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 會陰切開術／会阴切开术 (huìyīn-qièkāishù)
- Czech: epiziotomie f, nástřih hráze
- Dutch: episiotomie (nl) f, epi (nl) f
- Finnish: episiotomia (fi)
- French: épisiotomie (fr) f
- Hungarian: gátmetszés, epiziotómia
- Indonesian: episiotomi (id)
- Italian: episiotomia (it) f
- Japanese: 会陰切開
- Macedonian: епизиотомија (epiziotomija)
- Polish: episiotomia (pl), nacięcie krocza (pl) n
- Portuguese: episiotomia f
- Romanian: epiziotomie f, perineotomie f
- Russian: эпизиотоми́я f (epiziotomíja)
- Spanish: episiotomía f
- Swedish: perineotomi c, episiotomi c, klipp (sv) c
- Turkish: epizyotomi, perineotomi
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