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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
dermabrasion is a noun meaning "removal of scars or tattoos by anesthetizing the skin surface and then sanding or scraping off some of the outer skin layer". It carries one recorded sense.
removal of scars or tattoos by anesthetizing the skin surface and then sanding or scraping off some of the outer skin layer
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dermabrasion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.