lipectomy

[li-pek-tuh-mee, lahy-]

noun

Surgery.

plural

lipectomies 

1. the surgical removal of fatty tissue.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lipectomy¹

lip- + -ectomy

Example Sentences

Last March, Patsy Howell, 39, a Texas mother of two, died of a severe infection three days after undergoing lipectomy.

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Tops on the list, for women, is suction lipectomy, an operation developed in France and introduced in the U.S. in 1982.

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Her doctor's promise to give her "a nice flat, sexy belly" with a routine operation called a lipectomy, or tummy tuck, had turned into a nightmare.

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