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Surgical removal of a kidney
Answer for the clue "Surgical removal of a kidney ", 11 letters:
nephrectomy
Word definitions for nephrectomy in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1880, from nephro- "kidney" + -ectomy "a cutting out."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context surgery English) the surgical removal of a kidney
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Nephrectomy is the surgical removal of a kidney . See below for partial nephrectomy .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. surgical removal of a kidney
Usage examples of nephrectomy.
With any other patient, I would have performed a nephrectomy and yanked the kidney out.
As I passed Room 10 I realized the nephrectomy was already under way and that I would miss it.
That nephrectomy was more interesting to me than all the other cases put together.
It was eleven-twenty-five, and since the nephrectomy patient was just coming out of Room 10, I had a few minutes while it was being made ready for the first of my cholecystectomies.
Bazy of Paris ureterocystoneostomy, and suggested by him as a substitute for nephrectomy in those cases in which the renal organs are unaffected.