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thoracostomies

thoracostomies is the plural of thoracostomy.

Meaning of thoracostomy

Noun

thoracostomy (plural thoracostomies)

  1. Incision into the chest wall, with maintenance of the opening for drainage.

Questions about thoracostomies

What is thoracostomies the plural of?
Thoracostomies is the plural of thoracostomy.

Words near thoracostomies in the dictionary

  1. thoracoscopic
  2. thoracoscopically
  3. thoracoscopies
  4. thoracoscopy
  5. thoracospinal
  6. thoracostomies
  7. thoracostomy
  8. thoracotomies
  9. thoracotomise
  10. thoracotomised
  11. thoracotomises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thoracostomies (page history and authors); thoracostomy (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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