rhytidectomy

Other forms of rhytidectomy

plural

rhytidectomies·

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 rhytidectomy

What does rhytidectomy mean?

rhytidectomy means "plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised".

How many syllables are in rhytidectomy?

rhytidectomy has 5 syllables: rhy-ti-dec-to-my. The stress falls on "dec".

What is another word for rhytidectomy?

Close synonyms include face lift, facelift, lift, face lifting, cosmetic surgery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rhytidectomy a common word?

rhytidectomy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.