verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To perform hypophysectomy on. transitive
2. 2
   remove the pituitary glands wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

hypophysectomise

Etymology

From hypophysectomy + -ize.

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