vitrectomy
noun
vitrectomy is a noun meaning “The surgical removal of some or all of the vitreous humour from the eye” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-T-R-E-C-T-O-M-Y, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vitrectomy is vitrectomies.
What does vitrectomy mean?
noun
- 1
The surgical removal of some or all of the vitreous humour from the eye.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vitrectomy
- vitrectomies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vitrectomy?
Vitrectomy appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th 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 vitrectomy come from?
From vitreous + -ectomy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).