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-tomy

a combining form meaning “cutting, incision” of an organ, “excision” of an object, as specified by the initial element (appendectomy; lithotomy); also occurring in abstract nouns corresponding to adjectives ending in -tomous (dichotomy).
Compare -tome, tomo-, -tomous.


Origin:
representing Greek -tomia; see -tome, -y3
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-tomy
 
n combining form
indicating a surgical cutting of a specified part or tissue: lobotomy
 
[from Greek -tomia; see -tome]

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-tomy
comb. form meaning "a cutting," from Gk. -tomia "a cutting of," from tome "a cutting, section" (see tome).
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-tomy suff.
Act of cutting; incision: gastrotomy.

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