mastectomy

English

Alternative forms

• (misspelling) masectomy

Etymology

From mast- +‎ -ectomy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmæˈstɛktəmi/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɛktəmi

Noun

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.

Hypernyms

• top surgery

Derived terms

• mastectomee
• radical mastectomy

Translations

surgical procedure to remove all or part of the breast

• Bengali: ম্যাস্টেকটমি (bn) (mêśṭekṭômi)
• Bulgarian: мастектомия f (mastektomija)
• Catalan: mastectomia f
• Finnish: rinnanpoistoleikkaus, mastektomia (fi)
• French: mastectomie (fr) f
• German: Brustamputation f; (chiefly specialist) Mastektomie (de) f
• Icelandic: brjóstnám n, brottnám brjósts (is) n
• Ido: mastektomio (io)
• Italian: mastectomia (it) f
• Macedonian: мастектомија f (mastektomija)
• Polish: mastektomia (pl) f
• Portuguese: mastectomia (pt) f
• Romanian: mastectomie f, mamectomie f
• Russian: мастэктоми́я (ru) f (mastɛktomíja)
• Spanish: mastectomía (es) f
• Swedish: mastektomi (sv) c
• Tagalog: alisuso
• Turkish: mastektomi
• Welsh: mastectomi m