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fragmentectomy

noun

Etymology

From fragment + -ectomy.

  1. derived from fragmentum — “a fragment, remnant”
  2. inherited from fragment
  3. suffixed as fragmentectomy — “fragment + ectomy”

Definitions

  1. Removal of fragments of bone or other damaged tissue.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA