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Definition of Nephrectomy
1. Noun. Surgical removal of a kidney.
Definition of Nephrectomy
1. Noun. (surgery) the surgical removal of a kidney ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nephrectomy
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Medical Definition of Nephrectomy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nephrectomy
Literary usage of Nephrectomy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1888)
"A CASE OF nephrectomy FOR PYONEPHROSIS. BY FRANK WOODBURY, MD (Reported ...
On January 10, 1887, nephrectomy was carefully and skilfully done by Drs. Deaver ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"The following is a series of cases in which nephrectomy was performed ...
A nephrectomy was done, and the patient left the hospital in good condition. ..."
3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1885)
"That nephrectomy should not be resorted to until after the failure of other ...
That nephrectomy is absolutely contra-indicated—first, in sarcoma of ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1890)
"CASES of nephrectomy, successful or otherwise, have long since ceased to excite
general interest unless their merit lies in some feature outside of the ..."
5. Surgical After-treatment by Le Roi Goddard Crandon, Albert Ehrenfried (1912)
"nephrectomy The dressing should not be so voluminous that it makes a mass
uncomfortable to ... If the nephrectomy has been for tuberculosis of the kidney, ..."
6. The Surgical Treatment of Bright's Disease by George Michael Edebohls (1904)
"... nephrectomy, and nephrotomy, including under the latter term all ... resection of
the kidney, and even nephrectomy, to the treatment of which the writer ..."
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