splenectomy

IPA: spɫˈɛnˈɛktʌmi

Examples of "splenectomy" in Sentences

I had a splenectomy in 1988 and I rarely get sick.
Injuries: Buccaneers: Out: QB Chris Simms (splenectomy).
Free safety Ryan Clark is coming back from a splenectomy.
The scar is about 10 inches where they gutted my like a fish to do the exploratory plus splenectomy.
Meanwhile, how is April still chief resident after almost sending the wrong patient to a splenectomy?
In the last two months we have performed more advanced procedures such as splenectomy, adrenalectomy, distal pancreatectomy and hemicolectomy.
Luke McCown took over from Garcia for the remainder of the first half, and Bruce Gradkowski, last year's default starter after Chris Simms' splenectomy, played the second half.
A surgeon, for example, can't really perform a splenectomy from the golf course (though I wouldn't put it past one to try); a bartender can't pour your Glenlivet neat from his rumpus room La-Z-Boy.
Previous to the results of Minot's and Murphy's experiments the principal mode of treatment adopted, and one that was practised all over the world, was the giving of large doses of arsenic, while in serious cases it was also customary sometimes to resort to splenectomy, that is to say to removal of the spleen by an operation, or to blood transfusion, i.e. the transfer to the patient of blood from another person, a method that is still to be recommended at a critical stage in severe cases.