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enterotome

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English

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Etymology

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From French entérotome. See enterotomy.

Noun

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enterotome (plural enterotomes)

  1. (medicine) A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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