bronchotome

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English

Etymology

From broncho- +‎ -tome, from Ancient Greek βρόγχος (brónkhos) and -τομον (-tomon, that cuts), from τέμνω (témnō, I cut).

Noun

bronchotome (plural bronchotomes)

  1. (surgery) An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bronchotome”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)