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ADRENALECTOMY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does adrenalectomy mean?
• ADRENALECTOMY (noun)
The noun ADRENALECTOMY has 1 sense:
1. surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands
Familiarity information: ADRENALECTOMY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
adrenalectomy; suprarenalectomy
Hypernyms ("adrenalectomy" is a kind of...):
ablation; cutting out; excision; extirpation (surgical removal of a body part or tissue)
Context examples
A syndrome that develops following bilateral adrenalectomy for Cushing syndrome.
(Nelson Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
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