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mastectomy

English

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Etymology

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From mast- +‎ -ectomy.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌmæsˈtɛktəmi/, /ˌməsˈtɛktəmi/
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Particularly: "American accent"

Noun

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mastectomy (plural mastectomies)

  1. The surgical procedure to remove all or part of a breast and sometimes nearby tissues.
    Synonym: mammectomy
    • 2023 February 6, Hilary Osborne, “I thought knowing I had the ‘cancer gene’ would cast a shadow over my life. Now I have it, I realise how wrong I was”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      Three years later came Angelina Jolie’s revelation that she had the BRCA1 gene, and had decided to have a double mastectomy. The story topped the news, and was written about for days afterwards.
    • 2024 August 12, Leor Sapir, “A Consensus No Longer”, in City Journal‎[2]:
      An estimate of U.S. “gender-affirming” double mastectomies published in 2023 in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported 3,125 cases of “breast or chest procedures” in patients ages 12 to 18 between 2016 to 2020.

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