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heminephrectomy

heminephrectomy noun: surgical removal of one of the two kidneys.

Noun

heminephrectomy (countable and uncountable, plural heminephrectomies)

  1. surgical removal of one of the two kidneys
    • A two-step procedure was performed to induce chronic renal disease (CRD): left heminephrectomy at 20 weeks of age followed by right total nephrectomy 1 week later.2015 September 15, “Pitavastatin Reduces Inflammation in Atherosclerotic Plaques in Apolipoprotein E-Deficient Mice with Late Stage Renal Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

heminephrectomy meaning in Tamil

heminephrectomy in Tamil

சிறுநீரக பகுதி வெட்டு

Forms of heminephrectomy

pluralheminephrectomies

Origin of heminephrectomy

From hemi- + nephrectomy.

Questions about heminephrectomy

What does heminephrectomy mean?
Heminephrectomy means surgical removal of one of the two kidneys.
What is heminephrectomy in Tamil?
Heminephrectomy in Tamil is சிறுநீரக பகுதி வெட்டு. See Heminephrectomy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is heminephrectomy?
Heminephrectomy is a noun.
What is the plural of heminephrectomy?
The plural of heminephrectomy is heminephrectomies.

Words near heminephrectomy in the dictionary

  1. heminas
  2. hemineglect
  3. heminephrectomies
  4. heminephrectomize
  5. heminephrectomized
  6. heminephrectomy
  7. heminested
  8. hemineuromere
  9. hemineuromeres
  10. Heming
  11. Hemingbrough

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heminephrectomy (page history and authors); heminephrectomy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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