-ectomy, -ectome, -ectomize

The surgical removal of a renal calix (a cuplike extension of the renal pelvis that encloses the papilla of a renal pyramid; urine from the papillary duct is emptied into it).

Surgery on the skull to correct sagittal craniosynostosis.

Craniosynostosis is a congenital (present at birth) defect that causes one or more sutures on a baby's head to close earlier than normal. Sutures are connections that separate individual skull bones. The early closing of a suture leads to an abnormally shaped head.

The main treatment for craniosynostosis is surgery which is done while the baby is still an infant.

There are different types of craniosynostosis; for example, sagittal synostosis (scaphocephaly) is the most common type. It affects the main (sagittal) suture on the very top of the head.

The early closing forces the head to grow long and narrow, instead of wide. Babies with this type of craniosynostosis tend to have a broad forehead. It is more common in boys than with girls.

The goals of surgery are: (1) Relieve any pressure on the brain. (2) Make sure there is enough room in the skull to allow the brain to grow properly. (3) Improve the appearance of the child's head.

The operation may be either an extended strip craniectomy or a subtotal calvarectomy.

1. An excision of a canthus (the angle formed by the meeting of the upper and lower eyelids at either side of the eye).
2. Excision of a palpebral (eyelid or cover) canthus.

The surgical removal of a capsule; such as, around a breast implant, a joint, a lens of an eye, a kidney, etc.

1. The excision or surgical removal of a cancerous growth.
2. A surgical procedure in which all or part of an epithelial malignant tumor, or carcinoma, is removed.

Having the heart removed, as with a cardiectomized animal.

Excision of the cardiac portion, section, or end of the stomach.

Endarterectomy (a surgical procedure designed to clean out material occluding an artery) done on the carotid artery (a major artery in the neck that supplies blood to the brain) to restore normal blood flow through it to the brain and to prevent a stroke.

Excision of a portion or all of the carpus (wrist).

The surgical removal of the cecum.

The cecum (caecum), is the first portion of the large bowel, situated in the lower right quadrant of the abdomen.

The cecum receives fecal material from the small bowel (ileum) which opens into it.

The word cecum comes from the Latin caecus, "blind". This refers to the fact that the bottom of the cecum is a blind pouch (a cul de sac) which doesn't go any where.

A term for excision of any abdominal organ, or a part of it.

Abdominal hysterectomy or the surgical removal of the uterus through an incision made in the abdominal wall; the opposite of a vaginal hysterectomy.

Abdominal myomectomy (removal of a myoma of the uterus through an abdominal incision).

The removal of one or both fallopian tubes through an abdominal incision: June had to have a celiosalpingectomy, or also called an abdominal salpingectomy, performed by a surgeon in which the pair of slender tubes that extend from each ovary to the uterus had to be removed.

Surgical removal of the cervix, the lower portion of the uterus that protrudes into the vagina.

Cervicectomy is done in younger women with early cancer of the cervix. In this surgery, the cervix and the upper part of the vagina are removed but the rest of the uterus is left in place.

The lymph nodes in the pelvis are also removed, usually by keyhole laparoscopic surgery, to see if the cancer has spread.