cystoprostatovesiculectomy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
45
Scrabble Score
26
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Surgical removal of the urinary bladder, prostate gland, and seminal vesicles, typically performed as a treatment for invasive pelvic malignancies, especially cancer of the bladder, and often accompanied by reconstruction of a new method for urine drainage such as a urostomy or intestinal urinary diversion.
Example Sentences
- "The patient with bladder cancer underwent bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy and radical cystoprostatovesiculectomy with a continent catheterizable reservoir and final histology revealed pT3b pN0 (0/15) cM0 G3 mucus-producing adenocarcinoma of the bladder."
Etymology
From cysto- + prostatovesiculectomy.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: cysto