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  2. Oophorectomy - Wikipedia

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    Partial oophorectomy or ovariotomy is a term sometimes used to describe a variety of surgeries such as ovarian cyst removal, or resection of parts of the ovaries. [3]

  3. Salpingo-oophorectomy - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, salpingo-oophorectomy is the removal of an ovary and its fallopian tube. [1] [2] This procedure is most frequently associated with prophylactic surgery in response to the discovery of a BRCA mutation, particularly those of the normally tumor suppressing BRCA1 gene (or, with a statistically lower negative impact, those of the tumour suppressing BRCA2 gene), which can increase the ...

  4. List of -ectomies - Wikipedia

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    Salpingo-oophorectomy is the removal of the ovary and the fallopian tube together, when both left and right tubes and ovaries are removed, this is referred to as a bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. Scaphoidectomy [2] Septectomy is the removal of a septum. Splenectomy is the surgical removal of the spleen.

  5. Hysterectomy - Wikipedia

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    Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus and cervix.Supracervical hysterectomy refers to removal of the uterus while the cervix is spared. These procedures may also involve removal of the ovaries (oophorectomy), fallopian tubes (salpingectomy), and other surrounding structures.

  6. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    oophorectomy: ophthalm(o)-of or pertaining to the (eye) Greek ὀφθαλμός (ophthalmós), the eye ophthalmology: opistho-back, behind, rear [8] Greek ὄπῐσθεν (ópisthen), behind, at the back opisthotonus-opsy: examination or inspection Greek ὄψῐς (ópsis), view biopsy, autopsy: optic(o)-of or relating to chemical properties ...

  7. Olivia Munn Reveals She Had a 'Full Hysterectomy' Amid Breast ...

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    Olivia Munn Karwai Tang/WireImage Olivia Munn recently underwent a fifth surgery in her ongoing cancer battle. “I have now had a full hysterectomy. I took out my uterus, fallopian tubes, and ...

  8. Salpingectomy - Wikipedia

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    Salpingectomy is commonly done as part of a procedure called a salpingo-oophorectomy, in which one or both ovaries, as well as one or both fallopian tubes, are removed in one operation (a bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) if both ovaries and fallopian tubes are removed).

  9. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    He eventually left his post at the rehabilitation facility in 2011. “I was stuck in an abstinence model that didn’t work,” Kalfas said. Administrators of the facility “really need to be confronted with their success rates. In AA, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.