Hysteroscopy has been done in the hospital, surgical centers and the office. It is best done when the endometrium is relatively thin, that is after a menstruation. Diagnostic can easily be done in an office or clinic setting on suitably selected patients.
sterile. 1  free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic: sterile surgical instruments. 2  incapable of producing offspring; not producing offspring. 3  barren; not producing vegetation: sterile soil. 4  Botany. 5  not productive of results, ideas, etc.; fruitless.
early 15c., barren (implied in sterility), from Middle French stÃ©rile not producing fruit, from Latin sterilis barren, unproductive, from PIE *ster-sterile, barren originally stiff, rigid (cf. Greek steresthai be deprived of, steira sterile, stereos firm, solid, stiff, hard; Sanskrit starih a barren cow; Old Church Slavonic sterica a barren cow; Gothic stairo barren; Old Norse stirtla a barren cow).