Associations to the word «Mastectomy»

Wiktionary

MASTECTOMY, noun. (surgery) The surgical procedure to remove of all or part of a breast; mammectomy.

Dictionary definition

MASTECTOMY, noun. Surgical removal of a breast to remove a malignant tumor.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne