appendectomy

[ ap-uhn-dek-tuh-mee ]

noun

, Surgery.

, plural ap·pen·dec·to·mies.

1. excision of the vermiform appendix.

appendectomy

1. The surgical removal of the appendix .

Word History and Origins

Origin of appendectomy¹

First recorded in 1890–95; append(ix) + -ectomy

Example Sentences

Colson, who underwent an appendectomy, is getting closer to returning, according to Harbaugh.

From Los Angeles Times

Alex Pietrangelo had a non-COVID illness in late March, then had an appendectomy.

From Seattle Times

Bearman, standing in for Carlos Sainz after the Spaniard underwent an appendectomy, became at 18 years old the youngest British driver in F1 history, and the third youngest ever.

From BBC

Adrián Beltré was considered a teenage prodigy when he signed with the Dodgers for $23,000 in 1994, but there was little about his early career, which was marred by a birth-certificate issue and his slow recovery from a botched appendectomy in the Dominican Republic, that screamed “surefire Hall-of-Famer.”

From Los Angeles Times

The Dodgers nearly lost Beltré to free agency in 2000 when a Major League Baseball investigation found they had signed him before his 16th birthday, and Beltré missed the first six weeks of 2001 after undergoing surgery to close a wound in his large intestine, the result of an infection from an emergency appendectomy that January.

From Los Angeles Times