myomectomy
the surgical removal of a myoma, especially the excision of a fibroid tumor from the uterus.
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How to use myomectomy in a sentence
I have not known a patient to become pregnant after abdominal myomectomy for a submucous fibroid, large or small.
One patient was operated upon two years after the myomectomy, and had borne a child in the interval, and the other seven years.
Three months previously this woman had undergone abdominal myomectomy.
Many of these operations were complicated with ophorectomy, ovariotomy, or myomectomy.
British Dictionary definitions for myomectomy
/ (ˌmaɪəˈmɛktəmɪ) /
surgical removal of a myoma, especially in the uterus
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