Crossword clues for cholecystectomy
Wiktionary
n. (context surgery English) The surgical procedure to remove the gall bladder.
WordNet
n. surgical removal of the gall bladder (usually for relief of gallstone pain)
Wikipedia
Cholecystectomy (; plural: cholecystectomies) is the surgical removal of the gallbladder. It is a common treatment of symptomatic gallstones and other gallbladder conditions. Surgical options include the standard procedure, called laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and an older more invasive procedure, called open cholecystectomy. The surgery can lead to Postcholecystectomy syndrome.
Usage examples of "cholecystectomy".
She had had a cholecystectomy several years back, and it was difficult operating through all the adhesions and fibrous tissue.
An appendectomy or a cholecystectomy or any of the other interior operations left the surface of the person intact.
Of course, there was always a chance that the gastrectomy I was joining now would run over into the first cholecystectomy with the teaching surgeon.
Since the whole procedure would now have to start over and I was already a little late for the cholecystectomy, I took the opportunity to make an unobtrusive exit and hurried back to the OR.
Obviously, I had never done a cholecystectomy before, though I had seen a hundred or more, and this development was definitely not in my imagined scenario.
Then she asked Cheryl to check if Marsha Schulman had had a cholecystectomy and a hysterectomy.