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costectomy

American

[ko-stek-tuh-mee, kaw-] / kɒˈstɛk tə mi, kɔ- /

noun

Surgery.

excision of part or all of a rib.

Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

costectomies

plural

Etymology

Origin of costectomy

cost- + -ectomy

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