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ostectomy

American

[o-stek-tuh-mee] / ɒˈstɛk tə mi /

Also osteectomy

noun

Surgery.

excision of part or all of a bone.

Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

ostectomies

plural

Etymology

Origin of ostectomy

First recorded in 1890–95; ost(e)- + -ectomy

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