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From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly
Message-ID: <2443@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 12:08:14 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  6 12:08:14 1985
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Reply-To: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
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Summary: 

>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.
>
Small quibble: it's the other way around.  The Greek word for uterus
is hustera; the modern label hysteria is derived from the ancient word for
uterus.
-- 
Richard Mateosian
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