thoracotomy

1. 1.

   surgical incision into the chest walls opening up the pleural cavity

   Broaderincision

Other forms of thoracotomy

plural

thoracotomies·

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 thoracotomy

What does thoracotomy mean?

thoracotomy means "surgical incision into the chest walls opening up the pleural cavity".

How many syllables are in thoracotomy?

thoracotomy has 5 syllables and divides as tho-ra-co-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.