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Surgical removal of a breast to remove a malignant tumor
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mastectomy
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
surgical removal of a breast, 1909, from Greek mastos "woman's breast" (see masto- ) + -ectomy .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. surgical removal of a breast to remove a malignant tumor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All three had had bi-lateral mastectomies. ▪ And now state legislators and members of Congress are proposing that insurers pay for two-day stays for mastectomies. ▪ Greer interviewed a number of women who had had mastectomies. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mastectomy (from Greek "breast" and ektomia "cutting out") is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts , partially or completely. A mastectomy is usually carried out to treat breast cancer . In some cases, people believed to be at ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context surgery English) The surgical procedure to remove of all or part of a breast; mammectomy.
Usage examples of mastectomy.
In addition to rape, Selina is frightened of mice, spiders, dogs, toadstools, cancer, mastectomy, chipped mugs, ghost stories, visions, portents, fortune tellers, astrology columns, deep water, fires, floods, thrush, poverty, lightning, ectopic pregnancy, rust, hospitals, driving, swimming, flying and ageing.
The night before going into hospital for her simple mastectomy, although there was nothing simple about it, nothing simple at all, my mother standing at the window of the old house, looking out at the empty street beyond the net curtains, waiting for my old man.
And I moved to go over to him, to take his arm and make him listen while I told him about what was happening to my mum in the hospital down the road that morning, to tell him about the surgery, and to use words like mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, lymphoedema, until I saw him squirm with shame at his cowardice.
Some of his more witty mastectomy patients referred to the procedure as a boob job and a tummy tuck at the same time.
There was pain in her chest and abdominal areas, but she was happily aware of a return to normal roundness where her flat mastectomy scar had been.
She had thought that part of her life was over after the mastectomy, and here was this rather good looking man flirting with her.
Or was her mother just feeling self conscious about her mastectomy and unsure of herself?
The Czech professor in your story wonders why he gags at the straight-in-the-eye sight of a mastectomy bra.
Anna held down two jobs following her mastectomy, while the children were growing from toddlers to preteens.
Well, they pulled out every estrogen source in her body-- full mastectomy, the lymph nodes, ovaries --and she had an adrenalectomy!
The exploratory surgery had turned into a mastectomy without her knowledge.
The mastectomy was performed on December 14, 1989, a week after the lumpectomy.
When Anna discovered at the time of her mastectomy in 1989 that the lymph nodes in the armpit and surrounding area were cancer free, she felt a gush of relief.
I went to talk to Roma Funicelli about her possible mastectomy later that morning.
If there was one thing that was prominent about Ann Louise, it was her figure, and the notion of a mastectomy seemed like a desecration.