See Also: -tomy(medicine)
tomy(dictionary)

tomy (iou)



-tomy suffix.
[from Greek -tomia, from -tomos cutting, from temnein to cut: cf. -ECTOMY, -STOMY.]
Medicine. Forming nouns denoting surgical operations in which an incision is made into an organ or part, as cystotomy, laparotomy, tracheotomy, etc.
Forming nouns with the sense 'cutting up', as anatomy, zootomy.
Forming nouns with the sense 'division into parts', as dichotomy, etc.