Osteotomy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The surgical procedure of cutting a bone. This is often performed to either lengthen, shorten, or straighten a bone.
  2. 2
    surgical sectioning of bone wordnet

Etymology

From osteo- + -tomy.

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