Correct spellings for APPENDECOTOMY
- Appendectomy My friend had an emergency appendectomy last night and is now recovering in the hospital.
"Appendectomy" is the correct spelling for the surgical removal of the appendix. Common misspellings like "Appendecotomy" can often be avoided by remembering the correct prefix, "append-" followed by "ectomy". Using spell check and consulting medical dictionaries are also handy tools to prevent such errors.
