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leukotome

leukotome is the alternative form of leucotome.

Meaning of leucotome

Noun

leucotome (plural leucotomes)

  1. An instrument used to perform a leucotomy.
    • All sorts of rubbish is lying in the sand: a typewriter with half the keys missing (he picks out fragmentary sentences, sometimes these seem to mean something), a smashed neurosurgical unit (he pockets a handful of leucotomes, useful for self-defence).1970, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

Forms of leukotome

pluralleukotomes

Questions about leukotome

What is leukotome the alternative form of?
Leukotome is the alternative form of leucotome.

Words near leukotome in the dictionary

  1. leukotaxis
  2. Leukothea
  3. leukothrombocytopenia
  4. leukothrombocytosis
  5. leukotic
  6. leukotome
  7. leukotomes
  8. leukotomies
  9. leukotomy
  10. leukotoxic
  11. leukotoxicity

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