appendectomy

English

Alternative forms

• appendicectomy

Etymology

From appendix +‎ -ectomy.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛktəmi

Noun

appendectomy (plural appendectomies)

1. (surgery) The surgical procedure for the removal of the vermiform appendix.

Derived terms

• appendectomize
• autoappendectomy

 

Translations

surgical procedure

• Albanian: apendektomi
• Arabic: اِسْتِئْصَال الزَائِدَة الدُودِيَّة m (istiʔṣāl az-zāʔida ad-dūdiyya)
• Catalan: apendicectomia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 闌尾切除術／阑尾切除术 (zh) (lánwěi qiēchú shù)

• Czech: apendektomie (cs) f
• Dutch: appendectomie f
• Finnish: umpilisäkkeen poisto
• French: appendicectomie (fr) f
• German: Appendektomie (de) f
• Greek: σκωληκοειδεκτομή (el) f (skolikoeidektomí)
• Haitian Creole: apendisèktomi
• Hebrew: כריתת התוספתן f (kritát hatoseftán), כריתת התוספתן f (kritát hatosaftán)
• Hungarian: vakbélműtét (hu)
• Icelandic: botnlanganám n, botnlangaskurður m
• Indonesian: pembedahan usus buntu
• Interlingua: appendicectomia
• Italian: appendicectomia (it)
• Japanese: 虫垂切除術 (ちゅうすいせつじょじゅつ, chūsui setsujojutsu), 盲腸炎手術 (もうちょうえんしゅじゅつ, mōchōen shujutsu)
• Korean: 충수절제술 (chungsujeoljesul)
• Lithuanian: apendektomija
• Macedonian: операција на слепо црево f (operacija na slepo crevo)
• Polish: wycięcie ślepej kiszki
• Portuguese: apendicectomia (pt), apendectomia (pt) f
• Romanian: apendicectomie f
• Russian: аппендэктоми́я (ru) f (appendɛktomíja)
• Slovak: apendektómia
• Spanish: apendicectomía (es) f
• Swedish: blindtarmsoperation (sv) c
• Tagalog: alishugpong
• Tamil: குடல்வால் அறுவை (kuṭalvāl aṟuvai)
• Thai: การผ่าตัดไส้ติ่ง (literally “appendix operation”)
• Tibetan: རྒྱུ་ལྷག་གཤག་བཅོས (rgyu lhag gshag bcos)
• Turkish: apandis ameliyatı, apendektomi