Definition of thyroidectomy in US English:
thyroidectomy
nounPlural thyroidectomiesˌTHīroiˈdektəmēˌθaɪrɔɪˈdɛktəmiˌθaɪrɔɪˈdɛktəmi
Removal of the thyroid gland by surgery.
Example sentencesExamples
- Between July 2001 and July 2002, 60 patients undergoing thyroidectomy at a hospital in Mexico were randomly assigned to one of two groups.
- Treatment prognosis is mixed with thyroidectomy usually recommended with subsequent lifelong obligatory thyroid replacement therapy.
- A right thyroidectomy was subsequently performed.
- After a couple of weeks it transpired that decisions had been taken for Lennie to undergo mitral valve surgery and a thyroidectomy.
- The patient received palliative radiation to the neck and systemic chemotherapy, but she died of widely metastatic disease approximately 2 years after the thyroidectomy.
- A 72-year-old woman with a multinodular enlargement of the thyroid gland underwent a subtotal bilateral thyroidectomy because of a progressive tracheal compression.
Definition of thyroidectomy in US English:
thyroidectomy
nounˌθaɪrɔɪˈdɛktəmiˌTHīroiˈdektəmē
Removal of the thyroid gland by surgery.
Example sentencesExamples
- The patient received palliative radiation to the neck and systemic chemotherapy, but she died of widely metastatic disease approximately 2 years after the thyroidectomy.
- A 72-year-old woman with a multinodular enlargement of the thyroid gland underwent a subtotal bilateral thyroidectomy because of a progressive tracheal compression.
- A right thyroidectomy was subsequently performed.
- Between July 2001 and July 2002, 60 patients undergoing thyroidectomy at a hospital in Mexico were randomly assigned to one of two groups.
- Treatment prognosis is mixed with thyroidectomy usually recommended with subsequent lifelong obligatory thyroid replacement therapy.
- After a couple of weeks it transpired that decisions had been taken for Lennie to undergo mitral valve surgery and a thyroidectomy.