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.
Med. doing little or no harm; not malignant; specif., not cancerous: benign tumors; Origin of benign. Middle English and Old French benigne from Classical Latin benignus, good, literally , well-born from bene, well (cf. sense development of gentle) + genus, birth: see genus