noun. Surgical removal of the gallbladder.

noun. In surgery, anincision into the gall-bladder.

noun. The surgical procedure to remove the gall bladder.

noun. surgical removal of the gall bladder (usually for relief of gallstone pain)

"And last week, Kamran Goudarzi, a general surgeon in Wilmington, performed the area's first SILS cholecystectomy, which is removing the gall bladder through a single incision in the patient's belly button."

ablation  cutting out  excision  extirpation  

lap choly  laparoscopic cholecystectomy  

cornea  diathermy  eardrum  mastectomy