mastectomy
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (misspelling) masectomy
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Noun[edit]
mastectomy (plural mastectomies)
- The surgical procedure to remove all or part of a breast and sometimes nearby tissues.
- Synonym: mammectomy
- 2023 February 6, Hilary Osborne, “I thought knowing I had the ‘cancer gene’ would cast a shadow over my life. Now I have it, I realise how wrong I was”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- Three years later came Angelina Jolie’s revelation that she had the BRCA1 gene, and had decided to have a double mastectomy. The story topped the news, and was written about for days afterwards.
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surgical procedure to remove all or part of the breast
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