"' Partial oophorectomy "'or "'ovariotomy "'is a term sometimes used to describe a variety of surgeries such as ovarian cyst removal or resection of parts of the ovaries.
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Ine's mother died in 1869 . About this time Ine studied obstetrics in Nagasaki with Antonius Bauduin, who pioneered ovariotomy there and was appointed to the TMkM national medical school in Tokyo, which had just been renamed from Edo and where the Emperor had moved after his restoration.
