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In medicine, salpingoophorectomy is the removal of an ovary and its fallopian tube.

Salpingectomy refers to the surgical removal of a Fallopian tube.

Scrotoplasty, also known as oscheoplasty, is reparative or plastic surgery of the scrotum.

Septoplasty [sep′tō·plas′tē] (Etymology: L, saeptum, septum; Gk, πλάσσειν plassein – to shape), or alternatively submucous septal resection and septal reconstruction, is a corrective surgical procedure done to straighten the nasal septum, the partition between the two nasal cavities.

Sigmoidostomy is the establishment of an artificial anus by surgically creating an opening into the sigmoid colon.