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English
Etymology
From auto- + appendectomy.
Noun
autoappendectomy (plural autoappendectomies)
- (rare) An appendectomy performed on oneself via self-surgery.
1966, Jurimetrics Journal, volumes 8-9, page 171: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.
2010, Moshe Schein, Ahmad Assalia, “Acute Appendicitis”, in Ahmad Assalia, Moshe Schein, Paul Rogers, editors, Schein's Common Sense Emergency Abdominal Surgery: An Unconventional Book for Trainees and Thinking Surgeons, page 302:However, in this day and age we would recommend antibiotics rather than autoappendectomy.
2018, Michel Wagner, Dustin John Tubre, Juan A. Asenio, “Evolution and Current Trends in Management of Acute Appendicitis”, in Ronald F. Martin, Paul J. Schenarts, editors, Emergency General Surgery, An Issue of Surgical Clinics, page 1006: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.