laryngectomy
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To duplicate that miracle, Staffieri made a small slit in the esophagus of a laryngectomy patient.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every time Surgeon Montgomery has done a laryngectomy, he has longed for a way to give the patient something better than this burping speech.
From Time Magazine Archive
To remove the cancerous tissue, surgeons perform an operation called a laryngectomy on many of these patients.
From Time Magazine Archive
In lesions of limited extent, partial laryngectomy is also able to achieve a control rate of better than 90% with preservation of a good, if not entirely normal voice.
From Time Magazine Archive
It should be made well below the isthmus of the thyroid gland, and from three to fifteen days before the laryngectomy.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
Others had had laryngectomies, or else defective hearing, or learning disabilities, or for an unknown reason had begun speaking much later than was normal.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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