endarterectomy

1. 1.

   surgical removal of the inner lining of an artery that is clogged with atherosclerosis

   Broaderablation

Other forms of endarterectomy

plural

endarterectomies·

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 endarterectomy

What does endarterectomy mean?

endarterectomy means "surgical removal of the inner lining of an artery that is clogged with atherosclerosis".

How many syllables are in endarterectomy?

endarterectomy has 6 syllables: en-dar-te-rec-to-my. The stress falls on "rec".

Is endarterectomy a common word?

endarterectomy 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.