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What does embryotomy mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) The act of cutting a foetus into pieces within the womb, so that it can be removed.
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If the disproportion is too great the only resort is embryotomy.
These cases are always trying, but it is very rarely necessary to resort to embryotomy.
Finding it impossible to deliver her in the usual way, embryotomy was in this instance employed.
It is noteworthy that he recognized the method of embryotomy as necessary when other measures had failed.

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