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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • suffix Surgical removal.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin -ectomia : Greek ek-, out; see ecto– + -tomiā, -tomy.]

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