mastectomy
Meaning of mastectomy
- a surgical operation to remove a breast.
a double mastectomy
they have undergone mastectomy
1920s: from Greek mastos ‘breast’ + -ectomy.
Information about mastectomy
- It is a name.
- The plural form of mastectomy is: mastectomies.
- Languages in which mastectomy is used:
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Hyphenation of mastectomy
mas-tec-tomy
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- mastectomy is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of mastectomy
- French: mastectomie, mammectomie
- Spanish: mastectomía
- Italian: mastectomia
- Portuguese: mastectomia
Words that rhyme with mastectomy
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