Autoappendectomy
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An appendectomy performed on oneself via self-surgery. rare
"This is not likely to involve any great change in the number of people who choose to act as their own lawyers, any more than the availability of medical and surgical treatises is to encourage autoappendectomy."
Example
More examples"This is not likely to involve any great change in the number of people who choose to act as their own lawyers, any more than the availability of medical and surgical treatises is to encourage autoappendectomy."
Etymology
From auto- + appendectomy.
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