debridement

1. 1.

   surgical removal of foreign material and dead tissue from a wound in order to prevent infection and promote healing

   Broaderoperation

Other forms of debridement

plural

debridements·

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 debridement

What does debridement mean?

debridement means "surgical removal of foreign material and dead tissue from a wound in order to prevent infection and promote healing".

How many syllables are in debridement?

debridement has 4 syllables and divides as de-bri-de-ment 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.