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mammectomy

American

[muh-mek-tuh-mee] / məˈmɛk tə mi /

noun

Surgery.

mastectomy.

Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

mammectomies

plural

Etymology

Origin of mammectomy

mamm(a) ² + -ectomy

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