tympanoplasty

1. 1.

   surgical correction or repair of defects or injuries in the eardrum or the bones of the middle ear

   Broaderoperation

Other forms of tympanoplasty

plural

tympanoplasties·

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 tympanoplasty

What does tympanoplasty mean?

tympanoplasty means "surgical correction or repair of defects or injuries in the eardrum or the bones of the middle ear".

How many syllables are in tympanoplasty?

tympanoplasty has 5 syllables: tym-pa-no-pla-sty. The stress falls on "no".

Is tympanoplasty a common word?

tympanoplasty 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.