English edit

Etymology edit

uvula +‎ -tomy

Noun edit

uvulatomy (plural uvulatomies)

  1. (surgery) The surgical removal of the uvula.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for uvulatomy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)