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- noun surgery The
surgical removal of atumour orcyst , especially from thebreast ; alumpectomy .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek tulos, lump; see teuə- in Indo-European roots + –ectomy.]
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