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say it: LIP-oh-suhk-shuhn
liposuction is a noun meaning "lipectomy (especially for cosmetic purposes) in which excess fatty tissue is removed from under the skin by suction". It carries one recorded sense.
lipectomy (especially for cosmetic purposes) in which excess fatty tissue is removed from under the skin by suction
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for liposuction come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.