mastectomy
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (misspelling) masectomy
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌmæˈstɛktəmi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛktəmi
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.
Hypernyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]surgical procedure to remove all or part of the breast
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