appendicectomy

1. 1.

   surgical removal of the vermiform appendix

   Synonymsappendectomy

   Broaderablation

Other forms of appendicectomy

plural

appendicectomies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about appendicectomy

What does appendicectomy mean?

appendicectomy means "surgical removal of the vermiform appendix".

How many syllables are in appendicectomy?

appendicectomy has 6 syllables: ap-pen-di-cec-to-my. The stress falls on "cec".

What is another word for appendicectomy?

Close synonyms include appendectomy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is appendicectomy a common word?

appendicectomy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.