valvuloplasty
noun
valvuloplasty is a noun meaning “Plastic surgery to repair a valve, such as a heart valve or venous valve” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-L-V-U-L-O-P-L-A-S-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 55 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of valvuloplasty is valvuloplasties.
What does valvuloplasty mean?
noun
- 1
Plastic surgery to repair a valve, such as a heart valve or venous valve.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of valvuloplasty
- valvuloplasties plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is valvuloplasty?
Valvuloplasty appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st 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 valvuloplasty come from?
From valvulo- + -plasty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).