Umbilectomy
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of omphalectomy. uncountable
"The 29-year-old man received extended partial cystectomy and umbilectomy and survived at 17-month follow-up without local recurrence or metastasis."
Synonyms
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More examples"The 29-year-old man received extended partial cystectomy and umbilectomy and survived at 17-month follow-up without local recurrence or metastasis."
Etymology
By haplologic alteration of umbilic- + -ectomy (which reflects the surface analysis of the word). The non-haplologic form would not present any pronunciation difficulties (it would be /ʌmˌbɪlɪˈsɛktoʊmi/), but the fact that the haplologic form both was coined and also was disseminated as the normal form of the word is a testament to the idea that haplology is driven by various cognitive processes besides phonemic elision.
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