myringoplasty

1. 1.

   surgical repair of a perforated eardrum with a tissue graft

   Broaderoperation

Other forms of myringoplasty

plural

myringoplasties·

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 myringoplasty

What does myringoplasty mean?

myringoplasty means "surgical repair of a perforated eardrum with a tissue graft".

How many syllables are in myringoplasty?

myringoplasty has 5 syllables and divides as my-rin-go-pla-sty 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.