Word Meanings - TRACHELORRHAPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.

Related words: (words related to TRACHELORRHAPHY)

• LACERATION
  1. The act of lacerating. 2. A breach or wound made by lacerating. Arbuthnot.
• UTERUS
  The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb. Note: The uterus is simply an enlargement of the oviduct, and in the lower mammals there is one on each side, but in the higher forms the two become more
• 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.
• SEWE
  To perform the duties of a sewer. See 3d Sewer.
• SEWAGE
  1. The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers 2. Sewerage, 2.
• SEW
  Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy. Gower. I will not tell of their strange sewes. Chaucer.
• SEWELLEL
  A peculiar gregarious burrowing rodent , native of the coast region of the Northwestern United States. It somewhat resembles a muskrat or marmot, but has only a rudimentary tail. Its head is broad, its eyes are small and its fur is brownish above,
• SEWERAGE
  1. The construction of a sewer or sewers. 2. The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.
• SEWEL
  A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place. Halliwell.
• SEWER
  A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana) (more info) 1. One who sews, or stitches.
• SEWSTER
  A seamstress. B. Jonson.
• SEWIN
  See SEWEN
• SEWEN
  A British trout usually regarded as a variety of the salmon trout.
• SEWING
  1. The act or occupation of one who sews. 2. That which is sewed with the needle. Sewing horse (Harness making), a clamp, operated by the foot, for holding pieces of leather while being sewed. -- Sewing machine, a machine for sewing or stitching.
• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• HOUSEWIFE
  A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good
• ELSEWISE
  Otherwise.
• HOUSEWARMING
  A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.
• HOUSEWIFELY
  Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent. A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely. Sir W. Scott.
• HORSEWORM
  The larva of a botfly.
• GOOSEWINGED
  Having a "goosewing." Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.
• HORSEWOOD
  A West Indian tree with showy, crimson blossoms.
• ELSEWHERE
  1. In any other place; as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere. 2. In some other place; in other places, indefinitely; as, it is reported in town and elsewhere.
• HORSEWHIP
  A whip for horses.
• ROSEWOOD
  A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machærium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra.
• HOUSEWRIGHT
  A builder of houses.
• GOOSEWING
  One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
• HORSEWEED
  A composite plant , which is a common weed.