simple mastectomy

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   removal of a breast leaving the underlying muscles and the lymph nodes intact

   Broadermastectomy

Questions about simple mastectomy

What does simple mastectomy mean?

simple mastectomy means "removal of a breast leaving the underlying muscles and the lymph nodes intact".

Is simple mastectomy a common word?

simple mastectomy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.