LUMPECTOMY

lumpectomy

(noun) surgical removal of a tumor without removing much of the surrounding tissue or lymph nodes; performed in some cases of breast cancer

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

lumpectomy (plural lumpectomies)

(surgery) The surgical removal of a tumour or cyst from a breast.

Synonyms

• tylectomy

Source: Wiktionary



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28 November 2024

SYNCRETISM

(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)


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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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