Plural of embryotomy; surgical procedures in which an embryo or fetus is cut or dismembered.
Plural of embryotomy, from embryo + Greek tome, 'cutting.' These procedures have a long history in difficult obstetrics.
Embryotomies were once necessary to save mothers' lives when childbirth became obstructed—a haunting reminder that modern medicine and anesthesia solved medical dilemmas that seemed unsolvable for millennia.
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