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hypophysectomy

American  
[hahy-pof-uh-sek-tuh-mee, hi-] / haɪˌpɒf əˈsɛk tə mi, hɪ- /

noun

Surgery.

plural

hypophysectomies

  1. excision of the pituitary gland.

Etymology

Origin of hypophysectomy

First recorded in 1905–10; hypophys(is) + -ectomy

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Some who had been resigned to an early death have begun virtually new lives after hypophysectomy controlled the recurrence or spread of colonizing cancers.

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