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annulotomy

annulotomy noun: an incision between intervertebral discs to allow decompression.

Noun

annulotomy (plural annulotomies)

  1. An incision between intervertebral discs to allow decompression
    • An annulotomy was created and subtotal discectomy was performed.2015 August 19, Chaoliang Lv et al., “Comparative effectiveness of two different interbody fusion methods for transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: cage versus morselized impacted bone grafts”, in...

Forms of annulotomy

pluralannulotomies

Origin of annulotomy

From annulus + -otomy.

Questions about annulotomy

What does annulotomy mean?
Annulotomy means an incision between intervertebral discs to allow decompression.
What part of speech is annulotomy?
Annulotomy is a noun.
What is the plural of annulotomy?
The plural of annulotomy is annulotomies.

Words near annulotomy in the dictionary

  1. annulose
  2. annulosiphonate
  3. annulospiral
  4. annulospirals
  5. annulotomies
  6. annulotomy
  7. annuloventricular
  8. annuls
  9. annulus
  10. annulus fibrosus
  11. annulus of Zinn

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