Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

general surgery

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.57 in modern English

Syllables: gen-er-al -surgery
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland and certain diseases of the skin.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

general surgeries (plural)

Phrases

general surgeon

Frequently Paired Words

general surgeon

Questions

What does general surgery mean?: A surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland and certain diseases of the skin.

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