Medical Terminology / Unit 2 MedTerm 0089 short lesson, about 20 seconds
-otomy: Incision
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The idea
The suffix otomy names a surgical incision into the structure its root identifies, with nothing removed.
In practice
Tracheotomy is a surgical incision into the trachea.
Where people slip
An incision opens a structure. It does not take the structure out.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- 0090-ostomy: Creating an Opening
- 0110Choosing Among -ectomy, -otomy, and -ostomy
- 0363Building Musculoskeletal Terms
- 0551Building Respiratory Terms
- 0806Capstone: Fourteen Nervous and Sensory Terms Decoded
- 0920tom/o: To Cut or Section
- 0996Capstone: Building Twelve Terms From Nothing
- 0997Capstone: Reading an Operative Sentence
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