neurectomy

1. 1.

   surgical removal of all or part of a nerve

   Broaderablation

Other forms of neurectomy

plural

neurectomies·

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 neurectomy

What does neurectomy mean?

neurectomy means "surgical removal of all or part of a nerve".

How many syllables are in neurectomy?

neurectomy has 5 syllables and divides as ne-u-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.