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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
thoracentesis is a noun meaning "removal of fluid from the chest by centesis for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes". It carries one recorded sense.
removal of fluid from the chest by centesis for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for thoracentesis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.