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Surgical removal of the palatine tonsils
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tonsillectomy
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Word definitions for tonsillectomy in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tonsilotomy \Ton`sil*ot"o*my\, n. (Surg.) The operation of removing the tonsils, or a portion thereof; -- called more commonly tonsillectomy .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. surgical removal of the palatine tonsils; commonly performed along with adenoidectomy
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context surgery English) The surgical removal of the tonsils, especially the palatine tonsils. Frequently accompanied by an adenoidectomy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1899, from comb. form of tonsil + -ectomy . A hybrid with a Latin front end and a Greek ending. A correct formation all from Greek would be amygdalectomy .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tonsillectomy is a surgical procedure in which each tonsil is removed from a recess in the side of the pharynx called the tonsillar fossa. The procedure is performed in response to repeated occurrence of acute tonsillitis , sleep surgery for obstructive ...
Usage examples of tonsillectomy.
It reminded him of his tonsillectomy, awakening from anesthesia memoryless and suffering inexplicable pain.
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It was Josiah Beardsley, my potential tonsillectomy patient, and whatever he'd been doing since the Gathering, it hadn't improved his health to any marked extent.
In situations just like this, throughout the world, SF medics had saved lives with emergency appendectomies, tonsillectomies, tumor removal, benign and malignant, and other actions that would have them burned at the stake by the American Medical Association.
He could come through other people's tonsillectomies without suffering any postoperative distress, and even endure their hernias and hemorrhoids with only mild nausea and revulsion.
To which medical science adds a number of prefixes: appendectomy tonsillectomy mastectomy tubectomy vasectomy testectomy hysterectomy.