Adenotomy
adenotomy
adenotomy ad·e·not·o·my (ād’n-ŏt’ə-mē)
n.
surgical incision of a gland.
historical examples
adenotomy, ad-en-ot′o-mi, n. a cutting or incision of a gland.
chambers’s twentieth century dictionary (part 1 of 4: a-d) various
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