RADICAL MASTECTOMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radical mastectomy mean? 

• RADICAL MASTECTOMY (noun)
  The noun RADICAL MASTECTOMY has 1 sense:

1. removal of a breast and the underlying muscles (pectoralis major and pectoralis minor) and lymph nodes in the adjacent armpit

  Familiarity information: RADICAL MASTECTOMY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADICAL MASTECTOMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Removal of a breast and the underlying muscles (pectoralis major and pectoralis minor) and lymph nodes in the adjacent armpit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("radical mastectomy" is a kind of...):

mastectomy (surgical removal of a breast to remove a malignant tumor)

 Context examples 

Doctors consider radical mastectomy only when the tumor has spread to the chest muscles.

(Halsted radical mastectomy, NCI Dictionary)

An angiosarcoma arising from the skin of the arm following radical mastectomy and resulting lymphedema.

(Angiosarcoma of the Skin of the Arm after Radical Mastectomy followed by Lymphedema, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called radical mastectomy.

(Halsted radical mastectomy, NCI Dictionary)