Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, division of the thyroid cartilage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) The operation of cutting into the thyroid cartilage.
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- noun surgery The
operation ofcutting into thethyroid cartilage .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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BRONCHOTOMY (Gr. [Greek: bronchos], wind-pipe, and [Greek: temnein], to cut), a medical term used to describe a surgical incision into the throat; now largely superseded by the terms laryngotomy, thyrotomy and tracheotomy, which indicate more accurately the place of incision.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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6, Indirect view of larynx eight weeks after thyrotomy for cancer of the right cord in a man of fifty years.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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