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glandectomy

glandectomy is the alternative form of glansectomy.

Meaning of glansectomy

Noun

glansectomy (plural glansectomies)

  1. The surgical removal of part or all of the glans penis.

Forms of glandectomy

pluralglandectomies

Origin of glandectomy

From gland + -ectomy.

Words that rhyme with glandectomy

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Questions about glandectomy

What is glandectomy the alternative form of?
Glandectomy is the alternative form of glansectomy.

Words near glandectomy in the dictionary

  1. Glancys
  2. gland
  3. gland of Deshayes
  4. glandage
  5. glandectomies
  6. glandectomy
  7. Glander
  8. glandered
  9. glanderous
  10. glanders
  11. glandes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glandectomy (page history and authors); glansectomy (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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