Originally Posted By: Faldage
I would suspect that hysterectomy has the Greek root for uterus rather than the Latin because that tends to be how medical terms are formed; from Greek roots. That hysterics or hysteria was once thought to be due to a wandering uterus (and they say free-range is good) is irrelevant to the roots of the word hysterectomy.


Oh I don't know, there is a multitude of medical terms that derive from Latin.