mastectomy
mastectomy — 名詞
- mastectomysingular
- mastectomiesplural
1. a medical procedure that takes out a woman's breast, most often done because of
乳房切除術
切除乳房的癌症手術
a medical procedure that takes out a woman's breast, most often done because of cancer or to reduce the chance of getting it.
Aylin decided to have a mastectomy after a scan found a tumour in her breast.
掃描發現 Aylin 的乳房有腫瘤後，她決定接受乳房切除術。
collocation: have a mastectomy
Lotte needed eight weeks to heal properly after her mastectomy last winter.
去年冬天接受乳房切除術後，Lotte 需要八週的時間才能完全復原。
Tariro chose a preventive mastectomy because of her strong family history of breast cancer.
因為家族有明顯的乳癌病史，Tariro 選擇接受預防性乳房切除術。
Anong's surgeon said a mastectomy with chemotherapy gave her the best chance of recovery.
Anong 的外科醫生說，乳房切除術加上化療能給她最大的康復機會。
Heloísa joined a weekly support group for women who had undergone a mastectomy.
Heloísa 加入了一個每週聚會的支持團體，成員都是接受過乳房切除術的女性。
文法句型
have a mastectomy
undergo a mastectomy
用法筆記
Frequently used with the verbs 'have', 'undergo', or 'get'. The adjective 'double' indicates that both breasts are removed in the same operation.