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fissurotomy

fissurotomy noun: an incision into a fissure.

Noun

fissurotomy (plural fissurotomies)

  1. An incision into a fissure
    • The DIAGNOdent findings were closely correlated to the fissurotomy results, with a median of 15.0 among the teeth without caries according to the biopsy findings and a median of 46.5 among the teeth with caries ( Table 2 ).2015 July 1, María Melo et al., “In vivo study of different methods for diagnosing pit and fissure caries”, in Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry, volume 7, →DOI

Forms of fissurotomy

pluralfissurotomies

Origin of fissurotomy

From fissure + -tomy.

Questions about fissurotomy

What does fissurotomy mean?
Fissurotomy means an incision into a fissure.
What part of speech is fissurotomy?
Fissurotomy is a noun.
What is the plural of fissurotomy?
The plural of fissurotomy is fissurotomies.

Words near fissurotomy in the dictionary

  1. fissuring
  2. fissurings
  3. fissurization
  4. fissurizations
  5. fissurotomies
  6. fissurotomy
  7. fissury
  8. fist
  9. fist and skull
  10. fist bump
  11. fist bumped

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