cholecystotomy

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English

Etymology

From cholecystis +‎ -tomy.

Noun

cholecystotomy (plural cholecystotomies)

  1. (surgery) The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as when removing a gallstone.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 cholecystotomy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)