noun
- Plural of oophorectomy; surgical procedures in which one or both ovaries are removed from a woman.
Usage: Medical/surgical term; Plural form
Examples
- The surgeon performed bilateral oophorectomies to reduce the patient's risk of ovarian cancer.
- Multiple oophorectomies were documented in the hospital's surgical records from that year.
- Some women undergo oophorectomies as part of treatment for endometriosis.
- The study compared outcomes in patients who had undergone unilateral versus bilateral oophorectomies.
- Oophorectomies may be performed during hysterectomy procedures in certain cases.