nephrectomy

1. 1.

   surgical removal of a kidney

   Broaderablation

Other forms of nephrectomy

plural

nephrectomies·

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 nephrectomy

What does nephrectomy mean?

nephrectomy means "surgical removal of a kidney".

How many syllables are in nephrectomy?

nephrectomy has 4 syllables and divides as neph-rec-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.