nephrostomy
noun
nephrostomy is a noun meaning “The creation of a nephrostome” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-E-P-H-R-O-S-T-O-M-Y, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nephrostomy is nephrostomies.
What does nephrostomy mean?
noun
- 1
The creation of a nephrostome.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce nephrostomy?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-nephrostomy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of nephrostomy
- nephrostomies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nephrostomy?
Nephrostomy appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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).
Where does nephrostomy come from?
From nephro- + -stomy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).