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Definition of Pancreatectomy
1. Noun. Surgical removal of part or all of the pancreas.
Definition of Pancreatectomy
1. Noun. (context: surgery) The procedure to remove part or all of the pancreas. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pancreatectomy
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Medical Definition of Pancreatectomy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pancreatectomy
Literary usage of Pancreatectomy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"The Technique of pancreatectomy.—DESJARDINS (Revue de chir., 1907, xxvii, 945)
says that the pancreas for surgeons is a noli tangere, since they do not dare ..."
2. A Text-book of operative surgery: Covering the Surgical Anatomy and by Warren Stone Bickham (1904)
"PARTIAL pancreatectomy BY GASTROCOLIC ROUTE. Description.—Excision of part of
the pancreas. Generally performed in connection with removal of a tumor ..."
3. Surgery of the Upper Abdomen by John Blair Deaver, Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst (1921)
"pancreatectomy.—We have already discussed resection of the body of the pancreas,
and excision of its tail (page 701); and it remains ..."
4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1908)
"2 and 3), pancreatectomy should be limited to ablation of the head. ... The operative
technique of pancreatectomy has been worked out upon the cadaver by ..."
5. The Principle and practice of surgery by John Ashhurst (1893)
"pancreatectomy, or excision of a portion of the pancreas, in cases of abdominal
wound with protrusion of that organ, appears to have been successfully ..."
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