cholelithotomy

1. 1.

   removal of gallstone through an incision in the gallbladder

   Broaderlithotomy

Other forms of cholelithotomy

plural

cholelithotomies·

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 cholelithotomy

What does cholelithotomy mean?

cholelithotomy means "removal of gallstone through an incision in the gallbladder".

How many syllables are in cholelithotomy?

cholelithotomy has 6 syllables and divides as cho-le-li-tho-to-my under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.