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Definition of Lipectomy

1. Noun. Plastic surgery involving the breakdown and removal of fatty tissue.

Definition of Lipectomy

1. Noun. (surgery) The surgical removal of fat from the body ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lipectomy

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Medical Definition of Lipectomy

1. Removal of localised subcutaneous fat deposits by suction curettage or blunt cannulization in the cosmetic correction of obesity and other esthetic contour defects. (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Lipectomy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (1916)
"Type of obesity, abdominal relaxation and umbilical hernia suitable for treatment by lipectomy and reconstruction of anterior abdominal wall. ..."

2. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1917)
"lipectomy. lipectomy, or the removal of a large amount of fat in connection with ... Gibbon, of Philadelphia, has reported a case of lipectomy in a patient ..."

3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"In very fat patients, the resection of an ovoid area of skin with the subcutaneous fat in the mid- line (horizontal lipectomy) has been found to be of great ..."

4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"My surgical colleagues often remove large masses of fat from the abdomen by excision ("lipectomy"). References 1. Larger General Articles on the ..."

5. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"... accumulation and distribution in meal-fed rats, 160312 lipectomy adipose tissue regeneration (rat), 161, 111 Lipids composition of submandibular and ..."

6. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1912)
"Dr. Howard Kelly in describing his operation of lipectomy says that by searching you can usually find some subdivisions of the fascia which run between the ..."

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