Примеры употребления для -ectomy
1. At Camp Arowhan in northern Ontario, Canada, they call it a "parent–ectomy." As is standard policy at many camps, director Joanne Kates doesn‘t allow her campers to phone, fax or e–mail their parents.
2. Other blunders included writing "known malignant" instead of "non–malignant", "urological" instead of "neurological" and "ectomy" instead of "octomy". Unison general secretary Dave Prentis said: "Lives are being put at risk by hospitals desperate to save money.
3. Other blunders included writing "known malignant" instead of "non–malignant", "urological" instead of "neurological" and "ectomy" instead of "octomy". The Southampton unison member warned that the "comprehensive package" offered by medical secretaries, who are familiar with both patients and consultants, will be lost under the decision to farm out one of their roles overseas.
4. Other examples show known malignant confused with non–malign, the former meaning a cancerous growth, the latter a benign growth; a septic confused with aseptic, the first meaning infected, the second clean; and ectomy with –octomy, the former requiring removal, the latter meaning an incision.