myringotomy

1. 1.

   surgical incision into the eardrum (to relieve pressure or release pus from the middle ear)

   Broaderoperation

Other forms of myringotomy

plural

myringotomies·

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 myringotomy

What does myringotomy mean?

myringotomy means "surgical incision into the eardrum (to relieve pressure or release pus from the middle ear)".

How many syllables are in myringotomy?

myringotomy has 5 syllables and divides as my-rin-go-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.