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masectomy

/məˈsɛktəmi/

masectomy is the misspelling of mastectomy.

Meaning of mastectomy

Noun

mastectomy (plural mastectomies)

  1. The surgical procedure to remove all or part of a breast and sometimes nearby tissues.
    • Three years later came Angelina Jolie’s revelation that she had the BRCA1 gene, and had decided to have a double mastectomy. The story topped the news, and was written about for days afterwards.2023 February 6, Hilary Osborne, “I thought knowing I had the ‘cancer gene’ would cast a shadow over my life. Now I have it, I realise how wrong I was”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    mammectomy

Questions about masectomy

What is masectomy the misspelling of?
Masectomy is the misspelling of mastectomy.
How do you pronounce masectomy?
Masectomy is pronounced /məˈsɛktəmi/.

Words near masectomy in the dictionary

  1. Masdens
  2. Masdeu
  3. masdevallia
  4. masdevallias
  5. mase
  6. masectomy
  7. mased
  8. Maseed
  9. Maseeds
  10. Masefield
  11. Masefieldian

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