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Definition of Mastectomies
1. mastectomy [n] - See also: mastectomy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mastectomies
Literary usage of Mastectomies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ethics in Epidemiology and Public Health Practice: Collected Works by Steven S. Coughlin (1997)
"The senior medical and surgical staff are faced with the dilemma of determining
what role, if any, bilateral prophylactic mastectomies should play in the ..."
2. Transsexuals: Life from Both Sides by Lynn Hubschman (1999)
"Bilateral subcutaneous mastectomies are performed in hospitals and usually require
a one night stay. The hospital costs will vary, as will the cost for ..."
3. Improving Accountability in Medicare Managed Care: The Consumer's Need for by U. S. Government Printing Office Staff, United States, Special Committee on Aging, Senate, Congress (1997)
"Post-Breast Cancer Surgery Hospitalisation The national attention given to coverage
of mastectomies indicates that there is a need for greater oversight. ..."
4. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"Surgical discard material from reduction mammoplasties and mastectomies is grown
in long-term culture (up to 85 population doublings) in a serum-free medium ..."
5. Identifying Health Technologies That Work: Searching For Evidence by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"A major recommendation of the conference—that few Halsted radical mastectomies
be done—was found in a subsequent review of medical practice to be moot—the ..."
6. Genetics Testing in the New Millennium: Advances, Standards and Implications edited by Constance A. Morella (2001)
"A rather scary-looking advertisement to be sure, targeted at a specific ethnic
group and by a surgeon whose major practice was prophylactic mastectomies. ..."
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