mastectomy

mastectomy

English

Etymology

From mast- +‎ -ectomy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmæˈstɛktəmi/

• Audio (southern England)

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Noun

mastectomy (plural mastectomies)

1. 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, ISSN 0261-3077:

     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

• top surgery

Derived terms

• mastectomee
• radical mastectomy

Translations

surgical procedure to remove all or part of the breast

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