embolectomy

1. 1.

   surgical removal of an embolus (usually from an artery)

   Broaderablation

Other forms of embolectomy

plural

embolectomies·

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 embolectomy

What does embolectomy mean?

embolectomy means "surgical removal of an embolus (usually from an artery)".

How many syllables are in embolectomy?

embolectomy has 5 syllables and divides as em-bo-lec-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.