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glossectomy

glossectomy noun: the surgical removal of all or part of the tongue.

Noun

glossectomy (plural glossectomies)

  1. The surgical removal of all or part of the tongue.

glossectomy meaning in Tamil and Kannada

glossectomy in Tamil

நாவெடுப்பு

glossectomy in Kannada

ನಾಲಗೆಕೊಯ್ತೆಗೆತ, ನಾಲಿಗೆಕೊಯ್ತೆಗೆತ

Forms of glossectomy

pluralglossectomies

Origin of glossectomy

From gloss- + -ectomy.

Words formed from glossectomy

Words that rhyme with glossectomy

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Questions about glossectomy

What does glossectomy mean?
Glossectomy means the surgical removal of all or part of the tongue.
What is glossectomy in Tamil?
Glossectomy in Tamil is நாவெடுப்பு. See Glossectomy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is glossectomy?
Glossectomy is a noun.
What is the plural of glossectomy?
The plural of glossectomy is glossectomies.

Words near glossectomy in the dictionary

  1. glossatrix
  2. Glossbrenner
  3. Glossbrenners
  4. glossectomies
  5. glossectomized
  6. glossectomy
  7. glossed
  8. glossed over
  9. glossematic
  10. glossematician
  11. glossematicians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glossectomy (page history and authors); glossectomy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glossectomy (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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