Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun myringotomy

1 sense of myringotomy

Sense 1
myringotomy -- (surgical incision into the eardrum (to relieve pressure or release pus from the middle ear))
       => 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; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery")