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The surgery is also called ovariectomy, but this term is mostly used in reference to non-human animals, e.g. the surgical removal of ovaries from laboratory animals. Removal of the ovaries of females is the biological equivalent of castration of males; the term castration is only occasionally used in the medical literature to refer to ...
In medicine, salpingo-oophorectomy is the removal of an ovary and its fallopian tube. [1] [2] This procedure is most frequently associated with prophylactic surgery in response to the discovery of a BRCA mutation, particularly those of the normally tumor suppressing BRCA1 gene (or, with a statistically lower negative impact, those of the tumour suppressing BRCA2 gene), which can increase the ...
The latter two terms are often used interchangeably and refer to creating an opening into the tube (e.g. to remove an ectopic pregnancy), but the tube itself is not removed. [1] Technically, the creation of a new tubal opening ( os , after the Latin word for 'mouth') by surgery would be a salpingostomy , while the incision into the tube to ...
Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus and cervix. Supracervical hysterectomy refers to removal of the uterus while the cervix is spared. These procedures may also involve removal of the ovaries (oophorectomy), fallopian tubes (salpingectomy), and other surrounding structures. The term “partial” or “total” hysterectomy are ...
A new study shows that ovary removal before menopause is linked to decreased white matter in the brain later in life. Andreas Selter/Getty Images This article originally appeared on Medical News Today
Parathyroidectomy is the surgical removal of one or more of the parathyroid glands. Penectomy is the partial or complete removal of the penis. Also known as a pendectomy. Pericardiectomy is the partial or complete removal of the pericardial sac around the heart. Pharyngectomy is the removal of the pharynx (also called the throat).
About a week later, she underwent surgery to remove the masses. The tumors had already spread throughout her abdomen, and doctors removed her uterus, cervix and both ovaries. “The tumors were ...
This one is a given, but if you know you’re approaching that time of the month, cramps after sex (and in general) are expected, says Dr. Dweck. This is also the case if you have sex on your period.