tonsillectomy

English

Etymology

From tonsil +‎ -ectomy.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛktəmi

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Noun

tonsillectomy (plural tonsillectomies)

1. (surgery) The surgical removal of the tonsils, especially the palatine tonsils. Frequently accompanied by an adenoidectomy.

Translations

surgical removal of tonsils

Catalan: amigdalectomia f, amigdalotomia f Chinese: Mandarin: 扁桃體切除手術 / 扁桃体切除手术 (biǎntáotǐ qiēchú shǒushù) Czech: tonzilektomie f Danish: tonsillektomi c Dhivehi: ޓޮންސިލް ނެގުން (ṭon̊sil negun̊) Dutch: tonsillectomie (nl) f Finnish: tonsillektomia, nielurisojen typistysleikkaus French: tonsillectomie (fr) f, amygdalectomie (fr) f Galician: amigdalectomía (gl) f, tonsilectomía (gl) f German: Tonsillektomie (de) f Greek: αμυγδαλεκτομή (el) f (amygdalektomí) Hebrew: נִתּוּחַ שְׁקֵדִים m (nitúakh shkedím) Indonesian: tonsilektomi Interlingua: tonsillectomia Irish: céislíneachtóime f Italian: tonsillectomia (it) f Japanese: 扁桃摘出術 (へんとうてきしゅつじゅつ, hentō tekishutsu-jutsu), 扁桃腺摘出術 (へんとうせんてきしゅつじゅつ, hentōsen tekishutsu-jutsu) Latin: tonsillectomia f Lithuanian: tonzilektomija f Macedonian: тонзилектомија f (tonzilektomija) Mongolian: Cyrillic: тонзилэктоми (tonzilektomi) Norwegian: Bokmål: tonsillektomi m Nynorsk: tonsillektomi m Polish: tonsillektomia (pl) f Portuguese: amigdalectomia f, tonsilectomia f Russian: тонзиллэктоми́я (ru) f (tonzillɛktomíja) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тонзилекто̀мија f Roman: tonzilektòmija (sh) f Slovak: tonzilektómia f Slovene: tonzilektomija f Spanish: amigdalectomía (es) f Swedish: tonsillektomi c Tagalog: alisgutil Ukrainian: тонзилектомія f (tonzylektomija) Welsh: tonsilectomi m

Further reading

• tonsillectomy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia