Test Your Vocabulary

Take Our 10-Question Quiz

Name That Thing

Take our visual vocab quiz

Test Your Knowledge »

True or False?

A quick quiz about stuff worth knowing

Take It Now »

Join Us on FB & Twitter

Get the Word of the Day and More

Facebook | Twitter

apicectomy


apic·ec·to·my

noun \ˌā-pə-ˈsek-tə-mē\
plural apic·ec·to·mies

Definition of APICECTOMY

: surgical removal of an anatomical apex (as of the root of a tooth or of the petrous portion of the temporal bone)