appendectomy
Noun
Meaning
surgical removal of the vermiform appendix
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After all, if a sous-chef needed an emergency appendectomy, the bill without insurance could be financially devastating.
Following his lecture on laparoscopic appendectomy, the president of the German Surgical Society wrote to the Board of Directors of the German Gynecological Society suggesting suspension of Semm from medical practice.
Although laparoscopic appendectomy has lesser wound problems than open surgery, the former is associated with more intra-abdominal abscesses.
It requires no further explanation to show the surgeon who removed the appendix was negligent, as there is no legitimate reason for a doctor to leave a scalpel in a body at the end of an appendectomy.
The paper describes his medical history as “unblemished, aside from a routine appendectomy when he was 10.”
King Edward, it was reported, was to be crowned two days later, and was to undergo an appendectomy soon afterwards.