Noun: peotomy
| Singular | peotomy |
| Plural | peotomies |
Sample Sentences
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An attack by the renowned Brazilian fishlet known as candiru, which likes to swim up a man's urine stream and lodge in the urethra with a ring of retrorse spines preventing its removal, is one of the very rare circumstances in which the doctor will perform the operation, known as peotomy. [1999, Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman, page 192:]
Nouns inflected like peotomy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πέος (péos, “penis”) + -tomy. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
πέος'.