nephrotomy

1. 1.

   incision into a kidney (usually to remove a kidney stone)

   Broaderincision

Other forms of nephrotomy

plural

nephrotomies·

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 nephrotomy

What does nephrotomy mean?

nephrotomy means "incision into a kidney (usually to remove a kidney stone)".

How many syllables are in nephrotomy?

nephrotomy has 4 syllables and divides as neph-ro-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.