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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

血管切开术

Pronunciation / Transliteration: xièguǎn qiēkāi shù

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Vasotomy/vəˈzɒt.ə.mi/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #85000 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"血管切开术是一种外科手术。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A surgical incision into a vas deferens or a blood vessel.

    "The medical procedure involved a precise vasotomy to access the duct for subsequent intervention."
  2. 2

    An obsolete or alternative historical term sometimes referencing a vasectomy.

    "In early urological literature, the term vasotomy was occasionally used interchangeably with vasectomy."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Modern Latin 'vas' (meaning vessel or duct, from Latin vas) combined with the combining form '-otomy' (derived from Greek 'tomia', meaning cutting or incision). Coined in medical terminology during the late 19th or early 20th century to describe surgical incisions into blood vessels or the vas deferens.

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