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TYMPANOPLASTY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tympanoplasty mean?
• TYMPANOPLASTY (noun)
The noun TYMPANOPLASTY has 1 sense:
1. surgical correction or repair of defects or injuries in the eardrum or the bones of the middle ear
Familiarity information: TYMPANOPLASTY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Surgical correction or repair of defects or injuries in the eardrum or the bones of the middle ear
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("tympanoplasty" is a kind of...):
operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)
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