ext_70401 ([identity profile] ukelele.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] astra_nomer 2005-01-27 07:56 pm (UTC)

Well...no, not exactly.

It was named "hysterectomy" because the Greek word for uterus was "hysteros", and because "-ectomy" refers to the removal of things.

"Hysteria" was so named because it was believed (by extremely enlightened doctors of yore :/ ) to be caused by the uterus, the hysteros, detaching from its normal position and wandering about the body.

So, correlation, but not causation.

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