Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, incision into the pharynx.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The operation of making an incision into the pharynx, to remove a tumor or anything that obstructs the passage.
- noun Scarification or incision of the tonsils.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun surgery The
operation of making anincision into thepharynx , to remove atumour or anything that obstructs the passage. - noun
scarification orincision of thetonsils
Etymologies
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pharynx + -tomy
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Examples
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Sub-hyoid pharyngotomy, which consists in opening the pharynx by a mesial vertical incision carried through the hyo-thyreoid membrane, may be called for, as in the case of a denture, the hooks of which have penetrated the wall of the pharynx.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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