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THROMBECTOMY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does thrombectomy mean?
• THROMBECTOMY (noun)
The noun THROMBECTOMY has 1 sense:
1. surgical removal of a blood clot (thrombus) from a blood vessel
Familiarity information: THROMBECTOMY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Surgical removal of a blood clot (thrombus) from a blood vessel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("thrombectomy" is a kind of...):
ablation; cutting out; excision; extirpation (surgical removal of a body part or tissue)
Context examples
The placement of an angioplasty guide wire, balloon, or other device (e.g. stent, atherectomy, brachytherapy, or thrombectomy catheter) into a native coronary artery or coronary artery bypass graft for the purpose of mechanical coronary revascularization.
(Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, NCI Thesaurus)
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