hypophysectomy

1. 1.

   surgical removal of the pituitary gland

   Broaderablation

Other forms of hypophysectomy

plural

hypophysectomies·

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 hypophysectomy

What does hypophysectomy mean?

hypophysectomy means "surgical removal of the pituitary gland".

How many syllables are in hypophysectomy?

hypophysectomy has 6 syllables and divides as hy-po-phy-sec-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.