Etymologies
- -ectomy, as used in the names of many such operations. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Haiku Friday – I just got back from the periodontist and boy is my jaw tired; or – if it ends in "ectomy" it has to be bad”
“To that end, in what at first glance might appear to be a mere façade-ectomy, PATTERNS hearkens the torque and flow of Sunset Boulevard.”
“To that end, in what at first glance might appear to be a mere façade-ectomy, PATTERNS hearkens the torque and flow of Sunset Boulevard.”
“In court, his lawyer, Stephen Meister , likened the presence of Mr. Ross to a cancerous tumor, requesting a "Ross-ectomy" that removed him from the mortgage.”
“He gives new meaning to pre-existing condition – Your doctors mental deficiency and total Hippocratic oath-ectomy.”
Think Progress » Arizona Doctor Plans To Close His Office Because Of ‘Stress’ Caused By ‘Obamacare’
“He gives new meaning to pre-existing condition – Your doctors mental deficiency and total hypocratic oath ectomy”
Think Progress » Arizona Doctor Plans To Close His Office Because Of ‘Stress’ Caused By ‘Obamacare’
“To my surprise, "Norris" seemed almost relieved to talk about Barbara Jean's name-ectomy.”
“Dr. Sherry jokingly refers to his treatment as a "parent-ectomy.”
The Huffington Post: David Code: How a Parent's Anxious Mind Impacts a Child
“ObamaCare, by a combination of judicial surgery (a mandate-ectomy) and a starvation diet (not the Zone Diet, but the DeMint-McConnell-Boehner-Ryan Squeeze), suddenly seemed in peril.”
“This is a systemic problem with our national discourse that cannot be cured through a simple Clinton-ectomy, so to speak.”
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