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Definition of Extirpations
1. extirpation [n] - See also: extirpation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extirpations
Literary usage of Extirpations
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.) (1890)
"Sixteen complete extirpations have been practised for disease other than carcinoma;
... For sarcoma, there have been 7 total and 6 partial extirpations ..."
2. The Year-book of Treatment (1885)
"Of the 105 amputations of the cervix, 13, or 12'3 per cent., died. ,, 8 total
extirpations after Freund's method, 5, or 62 per cent., died. ..."
3. Pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of women by August Eduard Martin (1890)
"Of these there were sixty-six complete extirpations on account of carcinoma, ...
Nineteen extirpations were made on account of adenoma ; of these, two died, ..."
4. A Monograph on Diseases of the Breast: Their Pathology and Treatment, with by William Roger Williams (1894)
"At University College Hospital during the years 1884-89, 94 extirpations were
... Thus at these four hospitals 489 mammary extirpations were performed for ..."
5. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1885)
"In the first class of cases there were 96 amputations and 8 total extirpations;
in the second, 9 amputations and 30 extirpations; and in the third, ..."
6. The British Gynaecological Journal by British Gynaecological Society (1895)
"There were 91 abdominal extirpations for cancer, with a mortality of 26^3 per
cent., and 52 abdominal extirpations for salpingitis, with 8 deaths, ..."
7. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1893)
"... and seven partial extirpations, he draws attention to the fact that six of
the partial extirpations were done in the first seven cases, and that since ..."
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