Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

autoappendectomy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: au-toap-pen-dec-to-my
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An appendectomy performed on oneself via self-surgery.

Example Sentences

"This is not likely to involve any great change in the number of people who choose to act as their own lawyers, any more than the availability of medical and surgical treatises is to encourage autoappendectomy."
"However, in this day and age we would recommend antibiotics rather than autoappendectomy."
"A 27-year-old Leonid Rogozov performed an autoappendectomy on April 30, 1961, while isolated with a team of Soviets on an expedition to the Antarctic."

Etymology

From auto- + appendectomy.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: auto

Inflected Forms

autoappendectomies (plural) auto-appendectomy (alternative)

Questions

What does autoappendectomy mean?: An appendectomy performed on oneself via self-surgery.
Where does autoappendectomy come from?: From auto- + appendectomy.

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