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.
Gravid comes from Latin gravis, meaning heavy.. It can refer to a female who is literally pregnant, and it also has the figurative meanings of pregnant: full or teeming and meaningful.. Thus, a writer may be gravid with ideas as she sits down to write; a cloud may be gravid with rain; or a speaker may make a gravid pause before announcing his remarkable findings.