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cholestectomy

cholestectomy is the misspelling of cholecystectomy.

Meaning of cholecystectomy

Noun

cholecystectomy (plural cholecystectomies)

  1. The surgical procedure to remove the gall bladder.

Questions about cholestectomy

What is cholestectomy the misspelling of?
Cholestectomy is the misspelling of cholecystectomy.

Words near cholestectomy in the dictionary

  1. cholestatrienol
  2. cholesteatoma
  3. cholesteatomas
  4. cholesteatomata
  5. cholesteatomatous
  6. cholestectomy
  7. cholestene
  8. cholestenes
  9. cholestenoic
  10. cholestenol
  11. cholestenols

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cholestectomy (page history and authors); cholecystectomy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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