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bdellotomy

bdellotomy is the alternative form of bdellatomy.

Meaning of bdellatomy

Noun

bdellatomy (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The snipping off the tail of a leech engaged in sucking human blood, in order to let the blood run out of it and so increase its powers of drawing blood.

Questions about bdellotomy

What is bdellotomy the alternative form of?
Bdellotomy is the alternative form of bdellatomy.

Words near bdellotomy in the dictionary

  1. bdellomicrovirus
  2. bdellomicroviruses
  3. bdelloplast
  4. bdelloplasting
  5. bdelloplasts
  6. bdellotomy
  7. bdellourid
  8. bdellourids
  9. bdelygmia
  10. BDEs
  11. BDF

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