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Definition: Lumpectomy |
LumpectomyNoun1. Surgical removal of a tumor without removing much of the surrounding tissue or lymph nodes; performed in some cases of breast cancer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Surgery to remove the tumor and a small amount of normal tissue around it. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Lumpectomy |
| Specialty definitions using "lumpectomy": breast-conserving surgery. (references) |
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Five illustrations showing the methods of surgical treatment that may be used: lumpectomy; modified radical mastectomy; partial mastectomy (also called segmental mastectomy), radical mastectomy (also called Halsted radical mastectomy), and total (simple) mastectomy. These illustrations appeared in "What You Need to Know About Breast Cancer." See artwork WYTK-05. Credit: Jeanne Kelly (Artist). | Shows illustration of nude woman and indication of lump on right breast that would be removed as result of lumpectomy. See artwork: BC-08b. Credit: Donald Gates (artist). | ||
This is a graphic illustration of surgery of a segmental mastectomy, or lumpectomy, where the tumor and a wedge of the breast is removed. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | |||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Women who have radiation for breast cancer following lumpectomy often find cotton bras the most comfortable. (references) | |
For example, more women with cancer detected by mammography have the option of lumpectomy, rather than mastectomy, compared with women whose cancers are detected by palpation. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Lumpectomy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lumpectomy" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lumpectomy | 121 |
breast lumpectomy | 11 |
mastectomy and lumpectomy | 9 |
breast cancer lumpectomy | 7 |
lumpectomy procedure | 4 |
lumpectomy recovery | 4 |
lumpectomy scar | 3 |
lumpectomy vs mastectomy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lumpectomy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | curage ganglionnaire. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Tumorresektion. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | asportazione del nodulo. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | umpectomylay tumorectomia. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Lumpectomy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lipectomy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lumpectomy" (pronounced lu'mpe"ktumē) |
| 6 | -e" k t u m ē | appendectomy, hysterectomies, hysterectomy, mastectomy, prostatectomy, tonsillectomy, vasectomy. |
| 4 | -t u m ē | anatomy, dichotomy, epitome, keratotomy. |
| 3 | -u m ē | academy, alchemy, anomie, Archenemy, astronomy, autonomy, blasphemy, economy, enemy, gastronomy, infamy, monogamy, polygamy, sesame, sodomy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-m-m-o-p-t-u-y" | |
-3 letters: commute, compute, couplet, octuple, octuply, outyelp, plummet, pummelo. | |
-4 letters: clumpy, coempt, comely, compel, comply, cotype, couple, cutely, employ, lyceum, metump, motley, mutely, peyotl, plummy, pommel, pumelo, pummel, tupelo, yclept. | |
-5 letters: celom, clept, clomp, clout, clump, comet, commy, compt, comte, coupe, coypu, culet, cupel, cutey, cymol, empty, letup, locum, loupe, lumpy, mopey, motel, motey. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-m-m-o-p-t-u-y" | |
+5 letters: uncomplimentary. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 75 6D 70 65 63 74 6F 6D 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01110101 01101101 01110000 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101111 01101101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L u m p e c t o m y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0075 006D 0070 0065 0063 0074 006F 006D 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46877982716986817991 |
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