Hysterectomy, total
Complete surgical removal of the uterus including the cervix. Also known as complete ‘hysterectomy.
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- Hysterectomy, vaginal
Removal of the uterus through a surgical incision, not of the abdomen but, within the vagina. With a vaginal hysterectomy, the scar is not outwardly visible. A vaginal hysterectomy is in contrast to an abdominal hysterectomy.
- Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
A hysterosalpingogram imaging test that is used to examine the cavity of the uterus and Fallopian tubes. In a hysterosalpingogram, dye (called contrast material) is injected through a tube inserted through the vaginal into the uterus. A series of x-ray pictures are taken as the dye moves through the uterine cavity and out through the […]
- Hysteroscopy
A procedure to see inside the uterus (the womb) using a viewing scope that is inserted into the vagina up through the cervix into the uterus.
- Hypohidrotic
Pertaining to hypohidrosis, too little sweating.
- Hypohidrosis
Subnormal sweating, less sweating than usual. Hidrosis meaning sweating, so hypohidrosis is literally undersweating.