bedah profilaksis
Indonesian
Etymology
Compound of bedah + profilaksis.
Noun
bedah profilaksis (uncountable)
- (surgery) prophylactic surgery, preventive surgery, risk-reducing surgery: removing organs or tissues that are at high risk of developing cancer before cancer develops, aiming to minimize or eliminate the risk
Further reading
- “bedah profilaksis”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016