ventriculostomy
noun
ventriculostomy is a noun meaning “A neurosurgical procedure that involves creating a hole within a cerebral ventricle for drainage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-N-T-R-I-C-U-L-O-S-T-O-M-Y, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ventriculostomy is ventriculostomies.
What does ventriculostomy mean?
noun
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A neurosurgical procedure that involves creating a hole within a cerebral ventricle for drainage.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ventriculostomy
- ventriculostomies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ventriculostomy?
Ventriculostomy appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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 ventriculostomy come from?
From ventriculo- + -stomy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).