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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
thoracotomy is a noun meaning "surgical incision into the chest walls opening up the pleural cavity". It carries one recorded sense.
surgical incision into the chest walls opening up the pleural cavity
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 thoracotomy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.