laparotomy
- n surgical incision into the abdominal wall; often done to examine abdominal organs
- Next morning a laparotomy was done, the ovaries examined, and in the left ovary the bright punctate hemorrhage of a recently ruptured follicle was found.
- His only hope of survival was if we could get him to hospital for an urgent laparotomy, so we put him in the back of our vehicle and started the three-and-half hour drive back to .