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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.
surgical resection of unnecessary palatal and oropharyngeal tissue to open the airway; intended to cure extreme cases of snoring (with or without sleep apnea)
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.
uvulopalatopharyngoplasty is a noun meaning "surgical resection of unnecessary palatal and oropharyngeal tissue to open the airway; intended to cure extreme cases of snoring (with or without sleep apnea)". It carries one recorded sense.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for uvulopalatopharyngoplasty come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.