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autoappendectomy

autoappendectomy noun: an appendectomy performed on oneself via self-surgery.

Noun

autoappendectomy (plural autoappendectomies)

  1. (rare) An appendectomy performed on oneself via self-surgery.
    • This is not likely to involve any great change in the number of people who choose to act as their own lawyers, any more than the availability of medical and surgical treatises is to encourage autoappendectomy.1966, Jurimetrics Journal, volumes 8-9, page 171
    • However, in this day and age we would recommend antibiotics rather than autoappendectomy.2010, Moshe Schein, Ahmad Assalia, “Acute Appendicitis”, in Ahmad Assalia, Moshe Schein, Paul Rogers, editors, Schein's Common Sense Emergency Abdominal Surgery: An Unconventional Book for Trainees...

Forms of autoappendectomy

pluralautoappendectomies
alternative formauto-appendectomy

Origin of autoappendectomy

From auto- + appendectomy.

Questions about autoappendectomy

What does autoappendectomy mean?
Autoappendectomy means an appendectomy performed on oneself via self-surgery.
What part of speech is autoappendectomy?
Autoappendectomy is a noun.
What is the plural of autoappendectomy?
The plural of autoappendectomy is autoappendectomies.

Words near autoappendectomy in the dictionary

  1. autoapomorphic
  2. autoapomorphies
  3. autoapomorphs
  4. autoapomorphy
  5. autoappendectomies
  6. autoappendectomy
  7. autoarousal
  8. autoasphyxia
  9. autoasphyxiate
  10. autoasphyxiated
  11. autoasphyxiates

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