Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Excision of the vermiform appendix.
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- noun surgery The surgical procedure for the removal of the
vermiform appendix .
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- noun surgical removal of the vermiform appendix
Etymologies
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A heart bypass will cost five per cent more and an appendicectomy three per cent more.
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This is the only way to make the diagnosis and consequently the operator must be able to carry out an appendicectomy if required.
Chapter 4 1989
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We have performed cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal), appendicectomy and hernia repair.
Analysis 2010
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Socially he would display the worst standards of civic sense and may be criminal as Ill. Professionally he would indulge in all types of antisocial activities such as destroying the hutments for personal gains, taking bribe and still not doing the work, doing appendicectomy or caesarean sections without any indications etc.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows supri1278 2010
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"I'm surprised (that there are complaints) ... if you go to the surgical ward, there will be 20 housemen floating around, and they will be fighting to do an appendicectomy," he said in an interview.
Malaysiakini :: News 2010
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I'm reminded of a patient whose abnormally long appendix was lying across her right ureter (the tube from the kidney to the bladder), and when she had an appendicectomy the infections stopped.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk Dr Tom Smith 2010
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Socially he would display the worst standards of civic sense and may be criminal as Ill. Professionally he would indulge in all types of antisocial activities such as destroying the hutments for personal gains, taking bribe and still not doing the work, doing appendicectomy or caesarean sections without any indications etc.
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Socially he would display the worst standards of civic sense and may be criminal as Ill. Professionally he would indulge in all types of antisocial activities such as destroying the hutments for personal gains, taking bribe and still not doing the work, doing appendicectomy or caesarean sections without any indications etc.
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Socially he would display the worst standards of civic sense and may be criminal as Ill. Professionally he would indulge in all types of antisocial activities such as destroying the hutments for personal gains, taking bribe and still not doing the work, doing appendicectomy or caesarean sections without any indications etc.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows guestf91103 2009
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The patient was taken to theatre for laparoscopy with the option of appendicectomy.
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