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osteoectomy

osteoectomy is the alternative form of ostectomy.

Meaning of ostectomy

Noun

ostectomy (plural ostectomies)

  1. Excision of all or part of a bone.
    • femoral head ostectomy

Forms of osteoectomy

pluralosteoectomies

Origin of osteoectomy

From osteo- + -ectomy.

Words that rhyme with osteoectomy

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Questions about osteoectomy

What is osteoectomy the alternative form of?
Osteoectomy is the alternative form of ostectomy.

Words near osteoectomy in the dictionary

  1. osteodystrophia
  2. osteodystrophic
  3. osteodystrophies
  4. osteodystrophy
  5. osteoectomies
  6. osteoectomy
  7. osteofascial
  8. osteofibroma
  9. osteofibromatosis
  10. osteofibrosis
  11. osteofibrotic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: osteoectomy (page history and authors); ostectomy (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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