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quadrantectomies

quadrantectomies is the plural of quadrantectomy.

Meaning of quadrantectomy

Noun

quadrantectomy (plural quadrantectomies)

  1. Excision of the tissue in a breast quadrant, as a type of partial mastectomy.
    • In the Milan trial, patients treated with quadrantectomy and radiotherapy have experienced 8 new ipsilateral primaries and 18 new contralateral carcinomas.1988, Lydia Ioannidou-Mouzaka, Michael Philippakis, Philip Angelakis, Mastology '88: Proceedings of the 1st European Congress on Senology, Athens, 27-30 March 1988, →ISBN

Questions about quadrantectomies

What is quadrantectomies the plural of?
Quadrantectomies is the plural of quadrantectomy.

Words near quadrantectomies in the dictionary

  1. quadrantanopia
  2. quadrantanopias
  3. quadrantanopic
  4. quadrantanopsia
  5. quadrantanopsias
  6. quadrantectomies
  7. quadrantectomy
  8. quadrantes
  9. quadrantial
  10. quadrantic
  11. Quadrantid

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