"ossiculectomy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "ossiculum + -ectomy",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ossiculectomies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "ossiculectomy (plural ossiculectomies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Surgery",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1894, Archives of Otology, volume 23, page 193",
          "text": "The above reactions show how important it is that thorough tests should be applied before resorting to ossiculectomy, for it is manifest that when the nerve is involved to a considerable or great extent, but little can be hoped from the operation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The excision of an ossicle (a small bone of the ear) or of the auditory ossicles."
      ],
      "id": "en-ossiculectomy-en-noun-7-kubMDm",
      "links": [
        [
          "surgery",
          "surgery"
        ],
        [
          "excision",
          "excision"
        ],
        [
          "ossicle",
          "ossicle"
        ],
        [
          "ear",
          "ear"
        ],
        [
          "auditory",
          "auditory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(surgery) The excision of an ossicle (a small bone of the ear) or of the auditory ossicles."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences",
        "surgery"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ossiculectomy"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "ossiculum + -ectomy",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ossiculectomies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ossiculectomy (plural ossiculectomies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Surgery"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1894, Archives of Otology, volume 23, page 193",
          "text": "The above reactions show how important it is that thorough tests should be applied before resorting to ossiculectomy, for it is manifest that when the nerve is involved to a considerable or great extent, but little can be hoped from the operation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The excision of an ossicle (a small bone of the ear) or of the auditory ossicles."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surgery",
          "surgery"
        ],
        [
          "excision",
          "excision"
        ],
        [
          "ossicle",
          "ossicle"
        ],
        [
          "ear",
          "ear"
        ],
        [
          "auditory",
          "auditory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(surgery) The excision of an ossicle (a small bone of the ear) or of the auditory ossicles."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences",
        "surgery"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ossiculectomy"
}