vertebroplasty
noun
vertebroplasty is a noun meaning “A medical procedure where bone cement is injected percutaneously into a fractured vertebra with the goal of relieving the pain of vertebral…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-R-T-E-B-R-O-P-L-A-S-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vertebroplasty is vertebroplasties.
What does vertebroplasty mean?
noun
- 1
A medical procedure where bone cement is injected percutaneously into a fractured vertebra with the goal of relieving the pain of vertebral compression fractures.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vertebroplasty
- vertebroplasties plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vertebroplasty?
Vertebroplasty appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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 vertebroplasty come from?
From vertebro- + -plasty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).