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RADICAL MASTECTOMY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does radical mastectomy mean?

• RADICAL MASTECTOMY (noun)
The noun RADICAL MASTECTOMY has 1 sense:

1. removal of a breast and the underlying muscles (pectoralis major and pectoralis minor) and lymph nodes in the adjacent armpit

Familiarity information: RADICAL MASTECTOMY used as a noun is very rare.

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• RADICAL MASTECTOMY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Removal of a breast and the underlying muscles (pectoralis major and pectoralis minor) and lymph nodes in the adjacent armpit

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Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("radical mastectomy" is a kind of...):

mastectomy (surgical removal of a breast to remove a malignant tumor)

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