nephrectomise

ne·phrec·to·mize

[nuh-frek-tuh-mahyz]
verb (used with object), ne·phrec·to·mized, ne·phrec·to·miz·ing. Surgery.
to perform a nephrectomy upon.
Also, especially British, ne·phrec·to·mise.


Origin:
1895–1900; nephrectom(y) + -ize

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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