Crossword clues for nephrectomy
nephrectomy
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1880, from nephro- "kidney" + -ectomy "a cutting out."
Wiktionary
n. (context surgery English) the surgical removal of a kidney
WordNet
n. surgical removal of a kidney
Wikipedia
Nephrectomy is the surgical removal of a kidney. See below for partial nephrectomy.
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.