Meaning of autoappendectomy | Babel Free

Definitions

An appendectomy performed on oneself via self-surgery.

rare

Examples

“This is not likely to involve any great change in the number of people who choose to act as their own lawyers, any more than the availability of medical and surgical treatises is to encourage autoappendectomy.”

“However, in this day and age we would recommend antibiotics rather than autoappendectomy.”

“A 27-year-old Leonid Rogozov performed an autoappendectomy on April 30, 1961, while isolated with a team of Soviets on an expedition to the Antarctic.”

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