-ectomy, -ectome, -ectomize

Surgical removal of the entire prostate and seminal vesicles.

1. Excision of the prostate and seminal vesicles.
2. Surgical removal of the prostate gland and seminal vesicles.

The surgical removal of all or part of the coronal pulp of a tooth, leaving the radicular pulp.

The surgical removal, or excision of all or part of the pylorus: Mrs. Green was relieved when the pylorectomy was completed and she was feeling good again, and she was told by the doctor that part of the stomach had to be removed as well.

The excision of the pylorus (opening from the stomach and the first part of the small intestine) and the connecting part of the stomach; pylorectomy; gastropylorectomy: Doctors perform pylorogastrectomies when a person has a severe ulcer, a tumor, or a blockage.

1. Treatment of breast cancer in which the breast, involved skin, pectoral muscles, axillary lymph nodes, and subcutaneous fat are removed.
2. Removal of all breast tissue, from just under the collarbone to the abdomen, including the chest wall muscles and the axillary lymph nodes in the armpit.

Excision of all or part of a dental root.

1. The surgical division of a ramus communicans between a spinal nerve and a ganglion of the sympathetic trunk.
2. Surgical division of communicantes of sympathetic nerves.