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Definition of Colectomies
1. colectomy [n] - See also: colectomy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colectomies
Literary usage of Colectomies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"Sheen, AW : On the End-Results of colectomies for Intestinal Stasis. ... The author
reports the results of 4 colectomies for stasis after a period of five ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1904)
"He had done two colectomies, three ileo-colostomies, and five colostomies, with
three deaths—one in each group. GLASGOW MEDICO - CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY. ..."
3. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (1889)
"The statistics shown by the Table of colectomies give us little assistance in
the matter. Five of the cases give no information (12, 16, 24, 44, and 49). ..."
4. Therapeutic Gazette (1904)
"The author reports the following results : Two colectomies. One recovery, patient
living thirteen months after operation, and apparently quite well; ..."
5. Oxford Loose-leaf Surgery by F. F. Burghard, Allen Buckner Kanavel (1919)
"colectomies. The eighth or ninth day is that on which failure is prone to occur,
and care must be exercised in the exhibition of purgatives, or still more, ..."
6. The Year-book of Treatment (1893)
"Of four colectomies which Paul has done for malignant growth, only one has lived ;
in this a tube was inserted above and below a growth of the sigmoid ..."
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