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fissurotomy

noun

Etymology

From fissure + -tomy.

  1. derived from fissūra
  2. derived from fissure
  3. inherited from fissure
  4. suffixed as fissurotomy — “fissure + tomy”

Definitions

  1. An incision into a fissure

    • The DIAGNOdent findings were closely correlated to the fissurotomy results, with a median of 15.0 among the teeth without caries according to the biopsy findings and a median of 46.5 among the teeth with caries ( Table 2 ).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fissurotomy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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