Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thalamotomy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tha-la-m-o-to-my
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

6

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An invasive procedure, primarily effective for tremors such as those associated with Parkinson's disease, where a selected portion of the thalamus is surgically destroyed.

Inflected Forms

thalamotomies (plural)

Derived Forms

microthalamotomy subthalamotomy

Questions

What does thalamotomy mean?: An invasive procedure, primarily effective for tremors such as those associated with Parkinson's disease, where a selected portion of the thalamus is surgically destroyed.

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