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Inaccurate and misogynistic: why we need to make the term ‘hysterectomy’ history

By Theresa Larkin, Associate Professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong

An operation to remove the uterus should be called a uterectomy – like the removal of the tonsils is a tonsillectomy, or an appendix removal is an appendectomy.

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