tonsillectomy

1. 1.

   surgical removal of the palatine tonsils; commonly performed along with adenoidectomy

   Broaderablation

Other forms of tonsillectomy

plural

tonsillectomies·

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 tonsillectomy

What does tonsillectomy mean?

tonsillectomy means "surgical removal of the palatine tonsils; commonly performed along with adenoidectomy".

How many syllables are in tonsillectomy?

tonsillectomy has 5 syllables: ton-sil-lec-to-my. The stress falls on "lec". In IPA it is /ˌtɑnsɪˈlɛktəˌmi/.