Appendix removal by surgery.
Appendix. An appendectomy is the operation to remove the appendix.
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He was rushed into the operating theatre for an emergency appendectomy as his appendix had just exploded in his abdominal cavity.
There are five syllables like so: Ap-pen-dec-to-my.
Removal of the appendix is called an appendectomy.
In English, it is not a word. But it is used in surgery as a suffix to indicate that the procedure is an invasive one. Appendectomy.
As long as the scar is healed then there is no reason why you can't swim after an appendectomy
The same as before an appendectomy. aA balanced one.
Yes, appendectomy is excision (surgical removal) of the appendix.
Surgical removal of the vermiform appendix, performed incidentally to another primary surgical procedure.
open appendectomy
Append- is the root in the term appendectomy. The suffix -ectomy indicates surgical removal.