Autoappendectomy

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

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"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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