mastectomy
1Mastectomy — Intervention Mastectomy patient ICD 9 CM 85.4 …
2mastectomy — surgical removal of a breast, 1909, from Gk. mastos woman s breast (see MASTO (Cf. masto )) + ECTOMY (Cf. ectomy) …
3mastectomy — ► NOUN (pl. mastectomies) ▪ a surgical operation to remove a breast. ORIGIN from Greek mastos breast …
4mastectomy — [mas tek′tə mē] n. pl. mastectomies [ MAST(O) + ECTOMY] the surgical removal of all or part of a breast, usually so as to remove cancerous tissue …
5mastectomy — /ma stek teuh mee/, n., pl. mastectomies. Surg. the operation of removing all or part of the breast or mamma. Also called mammectomy. [1920 25; MAST + ECTOMY] * * * Surgical removal of a breast, usually because of breast cancer. If the cancer has …
6Mastectomy — A general term for removal of the breast. usually to remove cancerous tissue. The operation can be done in a hospital or in an outpatient clinic, depending on how extensive it needs to be. It takes from two to three hours, with three to five… …
7mastectomy — n. surgical removal of a breast. Simple mastectomy, performed for extensive but not necessarily invasive tumours, involves simple removal of the breast; the skin and if possible the nipple may be retained and a prosthesis (see breast implant) may …
8mastectomy — UK [mæˈstektəmɪ] / US noun [countable] Word forms mastectomy : singular mastectomy plural mastectomies medical a medical operation in which a woman s breast is removed …
9mastectomy — [[t]mæste̱ktəmi[/t]] mastectomies N VAR A mastectomy is a surgical operation to remove a woman s breast …
10Mastectomy, radical — Removal of all breast tissue, from just under the collar bone to the abdomen, including the chest wall muscles. The axillary lymph nodes are also removed. This operation is rarely used anymore, having first been replaced by the modified radical… …