Word Meanings - OVARIOTOMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The operation of removing one or both of the ovaries; oöphorectomy.

Related words: (words related to OVARIOTOMY)

• OPERATION
  Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols. (more info) 1. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• REMOVE
  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
• REMOVABLE
  Admitting of being removed. Ayliffe. -- Re*mov`a*bil"i*ty (-, n.
• REMOVAL
  The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• OOPHORECTOMY; OOEPHORECTOMY
  Ovariotomy.
• IRREMOVABILITY
  The quality or state of being irremovable; immovableness.
• PROPERATION
  The act of hastening; haste. T. Adams.
• IRREMOVAL
  Absence of removal.
• COOPERATION
  The association of a number of persons for their benefit. (more info) 1. The act of coöperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor. Not holpen by the coöperation of angels. Bacon.
• INOPERATION
  Agency; influence; production of effects. Bp. Hall.