Osteotome
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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- n osteotome In surgery, a sawlike instrument for cutting bones, specifically one for cutting the bones of the fetal cranium when it is necessary to reduce it considerably to permit delivery.
- n osteotome A form of chisel used to divide the bone in the operation of osteotomy for the correction of deformity.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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- Osteotome (surg.) a saw-like instrument for cutting bones
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Osteo-, + Gr. te`mnein
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
L. osseus—os, ossis, bone; Gr. osteon, bone.