cryosurgery

1. 1.

   the use of extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers)

   Broaderoperation

Other forms of cryosurgery

plural

cryosurgeries·

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 cryosurgery

What does cryosurgery mean?

cryosurgery means "the use of extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers)".

How many syllables are in cryosurgery?

cryosurgery has 4 syllables: cryo-sur-ge-ry. The stress falls on "sur".

Is cryosurgery a common word?

cryosurgery 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.