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-tomy

 
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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:
repr. Gk -tomia; see -tome, -y 3
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-tomy  
suff.  Act of cutting; incision: gastrotomy.

[New Latin -tomia, from Greek -tomiā, from tomos, a cutting, from temnein, to cut; see tem- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

-tomy 
comb. form meaning "a cutting," from Gk. -tomia "a cutting of," from tome "a cutting, section" (see tome).
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Medical Dictionary

-tomy suff.
Act of cutting; incision: gastrotomy.

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