hypophysectomized

1. 1.

   having the pituitary gland removed by surgery

   “hypophysectomized tadpoles”

   Synonymshypophysectomised

Questions about hypophysectomized

What does hypophysectomized mean?

hypophysectomized means "having the pituitary gland removed by surgery".

How many syllables are in hypophysectomized?

hypophysectomized has 6 syllables and divides as hypo-phy-sec-to-mi-zed 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.

What is another word for hypophysectomized?

Close synonyms include hypophysectomised. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hypophysectomized a common word?

hypophysectomized 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.