vulvectomy

1. 1.

   surgical removal of part or all of the vulva

   Broaderablation

Other forms of vulvectomy

plural

vulvectomies·

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 vulvectomy

What does vulvectomy mean?

vulvectomy means "surgical removal of part or all of the vulva".

How many syllables are in vulvectomy?

vulvectomy has 4 syllables and divides as vul-vec-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.