pneumonectomy

1. 1.

   surgical removal of a lung (usually to treat lung cancer)

   Broaderablation

Other forms of pneumonectomy

plural

pneumonectomies·

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 pneumonectomy

What does pneumonectomy mean?

pneumonectomy means "surgical removal of a lung (usually to treat lung cancer)".

How many syllables are in pneumonectomy?

pneumonectomy has 6 syllables and divides as pne-u-mo-nec-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.