tomo-,-tom, -toma, -tomic, -tomize, -tome, -tomical, -tomically, -tomist, -tomous, -tomy

(Greek: cut, incision; section; more often used as a suffix)


acrotomophilia
A paraphilia in which sexual arousal is dependent on the sexual partner having an amputation stump.

Paraphilia is characterized by sexual arousal to unconventional stimuli that are not considered to be part of normal sexual arousal patterns. It is also defined as a need for an extreme or dangerous stimulus to achieve sexual arousal or orgasm.

—Based on definitions from the Psychiatric Dictionary, Seventh Edition,
by Robert Jean Campbell, M.D.;
Oxford University Press; New York; 1996.

anatomy
1. The profession in science dealing with morphology which is concerned with the gross and microscopic structure of animals, especially humans.
2. The study of form, or the branch of science that studies the physical structure of animals, plants, and other organisms.
3. The physical structure; especially, the internal structure, of an animal, plant, or other organism, or of any of its parts.

Gross anatomy involves structures that can be seen with the naked eye. It is the opposite of "microscopic anatomy" (or histology) which involves structures seen under the microscope.

Traditionally, both gross and microscopic anatomy have been studied in the first year of medical school in the U.S. The most celebrated textbook of anatomy in the English-speaking world is Gray's Anatomy, still a useful reference book.

The word anatomy comes from the Greek ana-, "up" or "through" + tome, "a cutting". Anatomy was once a "cutting up" because the structure of the body was originally learned through dissecting it; that is, cutting it up.

androtomous
Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts.
atom
1. Literally, “not cutable”, not divisible.
2. Originally, any of the indivisible particles postulated by philosophers as the basic component of all matter.
3. A tiny particle of anything; jot.
cephalotomy
cirsotomy
colostomy
costotomy
Division of a rib.
craniotomy, cranioclasty, eccephalosis
1. An operation producing an opening in the cranium.
2. A puncturing of the fetal skull to allow drainage of its contents so that vaginal deliver can be accomplished.
crystolithotomy
Surgical removal of a urinary stone from the bladder through an incision in its wall.
cystotomy
dermatome
dermatotomy
diatom
dichotomous

Related cutting-word units: castrat-; -cise, -cide; -ectomy; put-; sec-, seg-; temno-; trunc-.


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