Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fissurotomy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fis-suro-to-my
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An incision into a fissure

Example Sentences

"The DIAGNOdent findings were closely correlated to the fissurotomy results, with a median of 15.0 among the teeth without caries according to the biopsy findings and a median of 46.5 among the teeth with caries ( Table 2 )."

Etymology

From fissure + -tomy.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: fissure

Inflected Forms

fissurotomies (plural)

Questions

What does fissurotomy mean?: An incision into a fissure
Where does fissurotomy come from?: From fissure + -tomy.

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