tonsillectomy

English

Etymology

From tonsil +‎ -ectomy.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛktəmi

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Noun

tonsillectomy (plural tonsillectomies)

1. (surgery) The surgical removal of the tonsils, especially the palatine tonsils. Frequently accompanied by an adenoidectomy.

Translations

surgical removal of tonsils

• Catalan: amigdalectomia f, amigdalotomia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扁桃體切除手術 / 扁桃体切除手术 (biǎntáotǐ qiēchú shǒushù)

• Czech: tonzilektomie f
• Danish: tonsillektomi c
• Dhivehi: ޓޮންސިލް ނެގުން (ṭon̊sil negun̊)
• Dutch: tonsillectomie (nl) f
• Finnish: tonsillektomia, nielurisojen typistysleikkaus
• French: tonsillectomie (fr) f, amygdalectomie (fr) f
• Galician: amigdalectomía (gl) f, tonsilectomía (gl) f
• German: Tonsillektomie (de) f
• Greek: αμυγδαλεκτομή (el) f (amygdalektomí)
• Hebrew: נִתּוּחַ שְׁקֵדִים m (nitúakh shakédím)
• Indonesian: tonsilektomi
• Interlingua: tonsillectomia
• Irish: céislíneachtóime f
• Italian: tonsillectomia (it) f
• Japanese: 扁桃摘出術 (へんとうてきしゅつじゅつ, hentō tekishutsu-jutsu), 扁桃腺摘出術 (へんとうせんてきしゅつじゅつ, hentōsen tekishutsu-jutsu)
• Latin: tonsillectomia f
• Lithuanian: tonzilektomija f
• Macedonian: тонзилектомија f (tonzilektomija)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: тонзилэктоми (tonzilektomi)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tonsillektomi m

  Nynorsk: tonsillektomi m

• Polish: tonsillektomia (pl) f
• Portuguese: amigdalectomia f, tonsilectomia f
• Russian: тонзиллэктоми́я (ru) f (tonzillɛktomíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тонзилекто̀мија f

  Roman: tonzilektòmija (sh) f

• Slovak: tonzilektómia f
• Slovene: tonzilektomija f
• Spanish: amigdalectomía (es) f
• Swedish: tonsillektomi c
• Tagalog: alisgutil
• Ukrainian: тонзилектомія f (tonzylektomija)
• Welsh: tonsilectomi m

Further reading

• tonsillectomy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia