-tomy

comb. form forming nouns denoting cutting, esp. in surgery (laparotomy).
Etymology: Gk - tomia cutting f. temno cut

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\\d.əmē, təm-, -mi\ noun combining form (-es)

Etymology: New Latin -tomia, from Greek, from -tomos cutting + -ia -y — more at -tome

: incision : section

carniotomy

laparotomy

sclerotomy

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a combining form meaning "cutting, incision" of an organ, "excision" of an object, as specified by the initial element (appendectomy; lithotomy{{)}; also occurring in abstract nouns corresponding to adjectives ending in -tomous (dichotomy). Cf. -tome, tomo-, -tomous.

[repr. Gk -tomia; see -TOME, -Y³]

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-tomy /-tə-mi/

combining form

Denoting surgical incision into an organ

ORIGIN: Gr -tomia the operation of cutting, from tomē a cut, from temnein to cut

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-tomy,

combining form.

1. surgical incision or operation, as in tracheotomy, lobotomy.

2. a cutting or casting off: »

Autotomy = a casting off of part of the body.

╂[< Greek -tomiā a cutting]

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comb. form cutting, esp. as part of a surgical process

episiotomy

Origin:

from Greek -tomia ‘cutting’, from temnein ‘to cut’

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-tomy

a. Gr. -τοµία, often through mod.L. -tomia, used to form abstract ns. from adjs. in -τοµος cutting; f. verbal ablaut-series τεµ-, τοµ-, τµ-, in τέµ-ν-ειν to cut, τοµή, τµῆσις cutting: entering into numerous technical terms, as anatomy, lit. ‘cutting up’, cystotomy, dichotomy, lithotomy, phlebotomy, thymotomy, tracheotomy, zootomy, etc.