The Use of Fetotomy in Large Animal Practice

Abstract

A primitive form of fetotomy was recorded in history as early as the fourth century B.C. and again in the first century A.D. However, centuries passed before a practical form of fetotomy was developed. The dismemberment of the fetus is often erroneously referred to as an embryotomy. It is not dismemberment or dissection of an embryo but that of a fetus, hence, the term fetotomy is the more correct term.