Meanings
nouncommissurotomy (plural commissurotomies)
plural commissurotomies
- medicineThe surgical division of a commissure or similar structure.
Origin
- Englishcommissure
- Proto-Indo-European*temh₁-
- Ancient Greekτέμνω (témnō)
- Englishcommissurotomy
From commissure + -otomy.
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