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pharyngectomy

American

[far-in-jek-tuh-mee] / ˌfær ɪnˈdʒɛk tə mi /

noun

Surgery.

excision of part or all of the pharynx.

Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

pharyngectomies

plural

Etymology

Origin of pharyngectomy

First recorded in 1885–90; pharyng- + -ectomy

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