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Definition of Splenectomy
1. Noun. Surgical removal of the spleen.
Definition of Splenectomy
1. Noun. (context: surgery) The surgical removal of the spleen. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Splenectomy
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Medical Definition of Splenectomy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Splenectomy
Literary usage of Splenectomy
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.) (1916)
"Three cases are reported in detail as types of amebic infection for which method
of giving emetin is recommended. Late Results of splenectomy in Pernicious ..."
2. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1918)
"The enormous splenic tumor of myelogenous leukemia on account of its size alone
is a source of much disability, and splenectomy following radium treatment ..."
3. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"The improvement after splenectomy in the condition of patients suffering from
... Following such a view, the beneficial results of splenectomy in certain ..."
4. Contributions to Medical and Biological Research by William Osler (1919)
"splenectomy. Experiments on white rats gave results similar to those in dogs.
Without exception the amount of lysin for sheep corpuscles was much less in ..."
5. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1919)
"splenectomy FOLLOWING RADIUM TREATMENT FOR MYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA* HZ GIFFIN The
... Bessel-Hagen, in 1000, was able to collect 42 cases of splenectomy for ..."
6. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Effect of splenectomy upon Pathological Hemolysis In certain diseases of the
blood associated with evidence of increased destruction of red cells, ..."
7. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1917)
"The basis on which splenectomy has been suggested in these heretofore incurable
conditions will be more clearly understood if we briefly review the ..."
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