episiotomy

1. 1.

   surgical incision of the perineum to enlarge the vagina and so facilitate delivery during childbirth

   Broaderperineotomy

Other forms of episiotomy

plural

episiotomies·

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 episiotomy

What does episiotomy mean?

episiotomy means "surgical incision of the perineum to enlarge the vagina and so facilitate delivery during childbirth".

How many syllables are in episiotomy?

episiotomy has 6 syllables: e-pi-si-o-to-my. The stress falls on "o".

Is episiotomy a common word?

episiotomy 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.