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Etymology

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See metrotomy.

Noun

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metrotome (plural metrotomes)

  1. (surgery, historical) An instrument for cutting or scarifying the uterus or the neck of the uterus.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for metrotome”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)