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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Surgical removal of the stapes.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An operation for the removal of the stapes in the middle ear.

Wiktionary

  1. n. surgery The surgical removal of the stapes of the middle ear.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. surgical removal of the stapes of the middle ear

Etymologies

  1. From stapes + -ectomy (Wiktionary)
  2. New Latin stapēs, stapēd-, stapes; see stapes + -ectomy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. ablation
  1. cutting out
  1. excision
  1. extirpation

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