See Also: ancy(dictionary)
ancy(dictionary)

pneumectomy (iou) and ancy (iou)


pneumectomy (iou)



pneumectomy noun. L19.
[from PNEUM(O- + -ECTOMY.]
Medicine. = PNEUMONECTOMY.

ancy (iou)



-ancy suffix.
[from or after Latin -antia -ANCE. Cf. -ENCY.]
Forming nouns of quality, as relevancy, or state, as expectancy, but not of action (cf. -ANCE). Many words orig. in -ance have been refash., as constancy.