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UPPP

UPPP is the abbreviation of uvulopalatopharyngoplasty.

Meaning of uvulopalatopharyngoplasty

Noun

uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (countable and uncountable, plural uvulopalatopharyngoplasties, abbreviation UPPP)

  1. A surgical procedure used to remove tissue in the throat in order to widen the airway of the patient, typically carried out as treatment for sleep apnea.

Forms of UPPP

pluralUPPPs

Questions about UPPP

What is UPPP the abbreviation of?
UPPP is the abbreviation of uvulopalatopharyngoplasty.

Words near UPPP in the dictionary

  1. uppour
  2. uppoured
  3. uppouring
  4. uppours
  5. uppowoc
  6. UPPP
  7. UPPPs
  8. uppricked
  9. upprop
  10. uppropped
  11. uppropping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: UPPP (page history and authors); uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (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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