fasciotomy
noun
fasciotomy is spelled F-A-S-C-I-O-T-O-M-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is faciotomy: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 28 of all searches for the word. Fasciotomy is a noun meaning “The cutting of the fascia to relieve tension or pressure (and treat the resulting loss of circulation to an…”. The plural of fasciotomy is fasciotomies.
How do you spell fasciotomy?
Fasciotomy is spelled F-A-S-C-I-O-T-O-M-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 28 of the searches for fasciotomy in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does fasciotomy mean?
noun
- 1
The cutting of the fascia to relieve tension or pressure (and treat the resulting loss of circulation to an area of tissue or muscle).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fasciotomy
- fasciotomies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fasciotomy?
Fasciotomy appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Fasciotomy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the cutting of the fascia to relieve tension or pressure:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fasciotomie |
| Portuguese | fasciotomia, fasciectomia |
| Spanish | fasciotomía |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fasciotomy come from?
From fascio- + -tomy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).