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From: jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly
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Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 03:58:11 EST
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> 
> Hysterectomy is the removal of the uterus, as I'm sure most all of us
> know.  However, the word means "removal of hysteria,"(!) which shows
> how the practice originated.
> 
> -- 
> Ed Gould		    mt Xinu, 739 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA  94710  USA

Perhaps this belongs in net.nlang, but here goes:

"Hysterectomy" and "hysteria" both come from the Greek root "hystera", meaning
"womb" or "uterus".  It is "hysteria", and not "hysterectomy", which is the
word with the sexist etymology.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak