Dictionary.com Thesaurus.com

hemorrhoidectomy

American

[hem-uh-roi-dek-tuh-mee] / ˌhɛm ə rɔɪˈdɛk tə mi /

noun

the surgical removal of hemorrhoids.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

hemorrhoidectomies

plural

Etymology

Origin of hemorrhoidectomy

First recorded in 1915–20; hemorrhoid + -ectomy

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.