Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Surgical excision of one or both of the adrenal glands.
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- noun surgery The removal of one or both
adrenal glands , usually advised for patients withtumours in those glands.
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- noun surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands
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Examples
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Surgeon is the same guy who did the wife's thyroidectomy, and it looks like the adrenalectomy, should it be necessary, can all be done by laparoscope.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003
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There were several other cases besides the adrenalectomy; they would be at it all day, Loveday calculated.
Cruise To A Wedding Neels, Betty 1974
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The operation was to be an adrenalectomy, and | both kidneys were involved.
Cruise To A Wedding Neels, Betty 1974
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In the toad and in the dog, adrenalectomy diminishes but does not suppress the diabetogenic effect of the anterior lobe extract, which can be obtained in adrenalectomized dogs, in which the pancreas has been surgically reduced, and which are kept alive by treatment with desoxycorticosterone and salt or even with sodium chloride alone.
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Animals upon whom double adrenalectomy has been performed show a striking fall in temperature, muscular weakness, -- after adrenalectomy the animal may not be able to stand even, -- and progressive chromatolysis.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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In the last two months we have performed more advanced procedures such as splenectomy, adrenalectomy, distal pancreatectomy and hemicolectomy.
Analysis 2010
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Clinicians should avoid the routine use of experimental therapies to promote growth and delay puberty, and patients should avoid adrenalectomy;
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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‧ Clinicians should avoid the routine use of experimental therapies to promote growth and delay puberty, and patients should avoid adrenalectomy;
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The abstracts John Theurer Cancer Center will present focus on the following topics: laparoscopic adrenalectomy (horseshoe kidney), hypogonadal patients receiving clomiphene citrate or anastrozole for infertility, robot-assisted radical prostatectomy and CT-fused indium-111 capromab pendetide immunoscintigraphy in management of recurrent prostate cancer.
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Following the lead of Raman, Cadeddu and colleagues with LESS nephrectomy, the authors have completed a matched case-control study for LESS adrenalectomy for adenoma/pheochromocytoma between 9 LESS patients vs. 17 standard laparoscopic adrenalectomy patients matched for age, sex, and tumor size. 1
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