Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The surgical procedure which cuts through the spine and removes the lower half of the body from the waist down.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences, surgery
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: translumbar amputation
Antonyms: none provided
History
From hemi- + corpus + -ectomy.
Across languages
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
